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Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer is considered a faithful and the heiress of Chancellor Angela Merkel. REUTERS / Fabrizio Bensch
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer will now embody Christian Democrats in Germany. She was elected Friday, December 7 at the head of the CDU, the party of Angela Merkel, after a close vote. She got only 52% of the votes against her rivals Friedrich Merz and Jens Spahn. She will take over the reins of the party after 18 years of reign of Angela Merkel. But who is the star of the German chancellor? Portrait.
"Mini-Merkel" or "Merkel bis": the one that Angela Merkel chose as her runner-up by appointing him general secretary of the CDU last spring has had to undergo from her opponents these criticisms a little simplistic.
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, or AKK, by its style, in the restraint and in its unifying side, undoubtedly reminds the current Chancellor. But the differences exist. First of all, his correspondent Pascal Thibaut tells us.
After Angela Merkel, former East German, Protestant and childless, it is again a personality from the West, more precisely from the Saar on the border with France, who takes over the torch. AKK, 56, a married woman and mother of three, comes from a Catholic family and this practitioner has been marked by the social doctrine of the Church.
More conservative
This influence is illustrated in her positions on social issues but also on social issues such as abortion or marriage for all, issues on which she is more conservative than Angela Merkel . This is also the case on security and migration issues.
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer was the first woman in Germany to head a Ministry of the Interior in her region. She then ran the Saarland for seven years and has a long history of government.
AKK, who had dropped out of the job in the spring to become general secretary, was at the meeting of a base dissatisfied with being too little listened to. With the result tight on Friday , she will now have to prove that she can reconcile a divided CDU.