Posted on 11/06/2020 10:24:10 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Germany's largest party has delayed choosing a new leader and the likely successor to Chancellor Angela Markel for a second time.
The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) had planned a convention in Stuttgart for December but confirmed on Twitter that the "pandemic situation" means the event could not take place.
Current party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer had announced in February that she would not run for chancellor in the expected 2021 election and would relinquish the party leadership.
A first convention to choose the CDU leader in April was also postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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To paraphrase Yogi Berra, “if Helmut Kohl was alive today, he’d be rolling in his grave.”
Pro-Merkel crowd is angling at getting either Soder (CSU out of Bavaria) or the Health Minister (Spahn) up on numbers to defeat Merz.
For info...Merz had a run-in with Merkel around ten years ago, and just quietly left the Berlin scene/politics. In the past year, he’s returned. Among party members...he’s probably got near 55 to 60 percent of their support.
Adding to this mess....six state elections are slated in 2021. By delaying this...it has consequences for the CDU Party in Baden-Wurttemberg (March election), Pfalz (March), and Thuringian (April).
It’s almost like they are stacking the deck to lose intentionally, and help bring Habeck of the Green Party to Chancellor status by the fall national election.
Has Frau Merkel made the choice to (finally!!) retire?
They seemingly could not stop electing her to more time in office, in spite of all the rape-fu-gees she has poisoned her countrysides with.
They want to keep this globalist hag on knowing she has the hots to be sniffed by The Idiot
I think if you line up the CDU Party membership...roughly 90-percent want her to move on. Add to it...her health has been questioned in 2019, and it’s obvious on state trips that she’s on a rest-cycle or given some reprieve from standing obligations.
If anything, she has a list of people who are appropriate (in her mind) to stand for party leadership. Merz is not on that list. Her primary candidate (2 years ago) was AKK (currently as Defense Minister). That suggestion didn’t go well, and AKK won’t stand for the Chancellor.
Just one more sniff
The CDU is the conservative party, correct?
This is a ‘loaded’ question. In the 1990s (from WW II to the end of the Kohl era)...it was a right-of-center party and defined as conservative.
After Merkel arrived, the party changed. So you’d defined them as middle-middle on just about every single topic. If you lived in Bavaria, you’d have the CSU Party (sister party) which is still a conservative party. But by the rules of the game...the CSU can only operate in Bavaria, not the other 15 fifteen states.
This is part of the long discussion/argument going on in Germany...you can’t satisfy around 20-percent of the public because they want a different view. The only viable solution is the AfD Party (which is basically a single topic group, anti-migration/anti-asylum). Beyond that, the AfD folks are a joke on conservative matters
AfD seems kind of extreme. I wish there were a credible party on the right.
Germans would argue that forty-odd parties exist, so everyone has some kind of choice. But the vast majority of the oddball parties only add up to 5 to 7 percent of the national vote altogether.
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