The CDU picks Angela Merkel's successor tomorrow

The ruling CDU will elect Angela Merkel's successor to the party's helm tomorrow and, with that, the candidate for the country's new Chancellor.

World media write about the removal of the German Chancellor and the election of her successor. The BBC writes that there is a feeling that the year is coming to an end, is closer to the end of Angela Merkel's era, and adds to the famous German proverb that “everything has its end and only the sausage has two”.

CDU Leader and German Chancellor since 2005 Angela Merkel announced in October that she left the party leader's position and was not planning to reopen the race for the Chancellor post, Kosova Prees broadcasts. According to the AP, she has moved tirelessly to her centre, refusing military recruiting, speeding up abandoning Germany's nuclear power and providing benefits that encourage parents to care for their children and allow the introduction of homosexual marriages. What is most controversial about Merkel as leader of the conservative party is that it allowed the extraordinary influence of asylum seekers in Germany in 2015.

The selection of her descendants will take place at a party congress in Hamburg, attended by 1,001 delegates.

Among the delegates, there will be many professional or random politicians at the state, regional or local level. CDU Secretary General Anneghart Karenbauer, also known for the nickname AKK, is one of the candidates for Angela Merkel's successor, but her ally is believed to be closer to Merkel's central positions. She, the AP estimates, repeatedly showed greater readiness for Merkel, to serve as a conservative rhetoric and was much more loud on the issue of opposition to gay marriage. Recently, 56-year-old Karenbauer tried to differentiate between herself and Merkel without denying her position, saying she had very vivid “talks with Chancellor for different topics.

Friedrich Merz (63) is also the candidate for the position of a new party leader, and the AP says it is trying to make a return “golar” after more than a decade from major political circles. It advocates a more conservative and close business approach, the AP explains. Merz headed the centre of centre right from 2000 to 2002, when Merkel and “dboi” from this position. Among the candidates is 38-year-old Jens Spach, Merkel's critic, who became minister of health in March.

He enjoys the support of the right-wing party, but seems to be turning increasingly towards Merz, which leaves him in the race, the AP estimates.

He claims the main issue is security and claims not all is a profit, even though migration to the country has been significantly reduced. The agency says Spach has a very small chance of success in the race, but that he can take advantage of the race itself in future changes that could follow the party leadership. Whoever becomes the new CDU leader wants to fulfil his promise to reinforce the profile of a party that only with the bavarese sister party, the Christian Social Union has been the most successful political successor in post-war Germany.