Armin Laschet elected new leader of Angela Merkel’s CDU party

At Saturday’s digital convention, Armin Laschet, the 59-year-old Prime Minister of North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s largest state, was elected leader of Germany’s largest political party, the CDU. He succeeds Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the successor of Angela Merkel. Laschet, a centrist, beat Friedrich Merz, the favorite candidate of the conservative wing in a runoff.

Armin Laschet elected new leader of Angela Merkel’s CDU party

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