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Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer: Who is the new leader of Germany's CDU?
BBC ^ | December 7, 2018 | BBC

Posted on 12/07/2018 8:19:14 AM PST by GuavaCheesePuff

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has been elected leader of Germany's ruling Christian Democrat Union (CDU) party, bringing Angela Merkel's 18 years at the helm to an end.

As the party's general secretary, Ms Kramp-Karrenbauer was favourite to take over when Mrs Merkel announced her retirement in October.

But she clinched only a narrow victory over Friedrich Merz, a long-time Merkel rival, in a run-off vote in Hamburg, with 51.8% of the vote.

Now the head of Germany's largest party, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, 56, could become the next German chancellor.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany
KEYWORDS: akk; angelamerkel; europeanunion; friedrichmerz; germany; krampkarrenbauer; merkel; nato

1 posted on 12/07/2018 8:19:14 AM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Out with the old..in with the old.


2 posted on 12/07/2018 8:22:23 AM PST by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Darn! Fred Mertz lost! I’ll bet Ethel is mad as hell!


3 posted on 12/07/2018 8:22:31 AM PST by DaxtonBrown
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Her nickname is ‘Mini-Merkel’...

What I’ll generally say is that as the next election likely comes up (2021 is the scheduled period)...she won’t win the Chancellorship. But the SPD Party is in such a rut....they probably won’t clear more than 14-percent of the vote, and you are looking at a clear path for the Green Party to win.


4 posted on 12/07/2018 8:26:17 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Are there no men left in Germany? What is with all the female leaders?


5 posted on 12/07/2018 8:27:35 AM PST by Pining_4_TX ("Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." ~ H.L. Mencken)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Friedrich Merz parts his hair on the right just like Hitler did.


6 posted on 12/07/2018 8:28:27 AM PST by VietVet876
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

7 posted on 12/07/2018 8:28:36 AM PST by nwrep
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To: nwrep

Guten Morgen, Frau Kramp!


8 posted on 12/07/2018 8:32:25 AM PST by lee martell (AT)
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To: nwrep

Egad the ugly it burns!!
German frau gone lesbo?


9 posted on 12/07/2018 8:33:45 AM PST by 9422WMR
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Frau Cramp.


10 posted on 12/07/2018 8:39:14 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: 9422WMR

She and her husband have three children. It is an idiotic conceit of some men that nobody can be happily married without meeting some standard of ideal appearance.


11 posted on 12/07/2018 8:39:27 AM PST by Tax-chick (Ask me about my Marine!)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Only Adolf Hitler brought more destruction upon Germany.


12 posted on 12/07/2018 9:30:47 AM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
she clinched only a narrow victory over Friedrich Merz... with 51.8% of the vote. Now the head of Germany's largest party, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, 56, could become the next German chancellor.
Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic is always an option I guess. The AfD will be shouldered out of a role in gov't, the same way Le Pen's party has been in France (until the upcoming perhaps).

13 posted on 12/07/2018 9:34:54 AM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...


14 posted on 12/07/2018 11:25:35 AM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Tax-chick

So the happily married kraut is very merrily doing her best to destroy Germany and all the civilized western society!
Well how fashionable!


15 posted on 12/07/2018 1:38:28 PM PST by 9422WMR
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To: BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; dfwgator; darkangel82; LS; AuH2ORepublican; ...

Merkel Mini-me Annegret something-something, who’s name sounds like a pharmaceutical company, narrowly defeated the superior conservative candidate Friedrich Merz.


16 posted on 12/07/2018 4:12:12 PM PST by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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To: Pining_4_TX
Are there no men left in Germany?


17 posted on 12/07/2018 5:02:17 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Well, that kinda answers my question.


18 posted on 12/07/2018 5:10:26 PM PST by Pining_4_TX ("Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." ~ H.L. Mencken)
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