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.
Merz is the candidate that lost.