Merkel’s successor Armin Laschet

[Axtremus]

Armin Laschet elected leader of Merkel's CDU party
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55688300

@Klaus and others in Europe, I’d would be curious to read your opinions on Armin Laschet.

[Mik]

Looks a bit like Klaus in 30 years.

I like the idea that a change of direction sends the wrong signal. We have lurched drunkenly the last two administrations.

[Doctor Phibes]

@mik said in Merkel’s successor Armin Laschet:

Looks a bit like Klaus in 30 years.

Laschet or Merkel?

[Mik]

@doctor-phibes your choice.

[Klaus]

I had rooted for Friedrich Merz.

This guy was Merkels choice and he got him selected despite the clear majority of the party being in favor of Merz. The voting isn’t direct, but via delegates, and they can often be strong armed since their jobs depend on the CDU leadership.

This guy stands for a continuation of Merkel and her policy of adopting every left wing policy in the world and declaring her choices as “alternativlos “, without alternative.