Merkel Successor Unexpectedly Resigns As CDU Leader In Latest Shock To Germany's Political Establishment
Following a series of reports in the German and broader European press claiming her imminent resignation, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer - better known as AKK - has confirmed that the rumors are indeed true. She will step down as the leader of Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, the center-right party that has ruled Germany for two decades, and won't run as the party's candidate to succeed Merkel during the federal election to pick Germany's next chief executive in 2021.
AKK reportedly resigned in protest over flirtations by the party's conservative wing to ally with Alternative für Deutschland, or the AfD, to achieve common political aims.
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