Posted on 12/14/2018 10:22:16 AM PST by OddLane
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, a 56-year-old career politician committed to the status quo, has been chosen to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel as leader of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
Kramp-Karrenbauer often referred to as "Mini-Merkel" or "Merkel 2.0" because many view her as Merkel's clone won by just 35 votes (517 to 482) in a second-round run-off against her main opponent, a conservative named Friedrich Merz, at a CDU conference in Hamburg on December 7. Kramp-Karrenbauer's extremely narrow victory (51.7% to 48.2%) revealed a party split down the middle.
Merz had pledged to pull the CDU back to its conservative roots, after two decades of leftward drift under Merkel's leadership resulted in a mass defection of angry CDU voters to the anti-mass migration party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), now the third-largest in the German parliament...
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Merz had pledged to pull the CDU back to its conservative roots, after two decades of leftward drift under Merkel’s leadership resulted in a mass defection of angry CDU voters to the anti-mass migration party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), now the third-largest in the German parliament...
Covering her right flank during election season. Once in power Merkel 2.0. No doubt.
Prolly has, like, 5 kids, right..?
Merz is the candidate that lost.
Looks like a guy I used to work with.
Hahahahahahaha!!!!!
I love that movie!
Not the Momma
I got them mixed up. Sorry. The woman who won has been taking nonsense about taking a harder line with Russia I believe. That will never happen as much as German business loves the Russian market.
PLEASE!.... I just ate lunch. Gonna be sick. How do freaks like that get into power in Germany.
“democracy”
Rule #1 in life:
Never, ever trust any woman with a hyphenated name.
HIV-positive?
So do they have some dyke-fest private circle controlling political power now in Germany?
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, a 56-year-old career politician... won by just 35 votes (517 to 482) in a second-round run-off against her main opponent, a conservative named Friedrich Merz, at a CDU conference in Hamburg on December 7. Kramp-Karrenbauer's extremely narrow victory (51.7% to 48.2%) revealed a party split down the middle. Merz had pledged to pull the CDU back to its conservative roots, after two decades of leftward drift under Merkel's leadership resulted in a mass defection of angry CDU voters to the anti-mass migration party, Alternative for Germany (AfD)
Another success story. Thanks OddLane.
Dennis Prager has pointed out that Germany just has a knack for messing things up politically. Here they go again.
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