German conservatives elect right winger Merz as new party leader
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BERLIN — Germany’s center-right Christian Democrats (CDU) on Saturday elected arch-conservative Friedrich Merz their party leader to follow the more centrist Armin Laschet, who lost September’s national election to Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats. Merz, who has promised a break with the CDU’s centrist course pursued by Angela Merkel during her 16-year tenure as chancellor, […]
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