• Germany.The candidates who aspire to chair the CDU, the party of Chancellor Angela Merkel

Armin Laschet

has been elected president of the Christian

Democratic

Union

(CDU)

this Saturday.

Laschet, an ally of

Angela Merkel

, thus prevails over Friedrich Merz and Norbert Röttgen.

Laschet, married with three grown children, came to politics from the grassroots.

He entered the CDU Youth at the age of 18.

In 1994 he won his first seat as a federal deputy.

He was a member of the so-called "Pizza Connection", a group of "rebels" from the CDU and Los Verdes that met in a pizzeria in Bonn, the former federal capital, to talk about politics and imagine the post-Helmut Kohl era, reports

Carmen Valero

.

Current Minister President of North Rhine Westphalia, Germany's most populous federal state, is a regular politician.

His party discipline and loyalty to Chancellor Merkel have given him an aura of docility, which together with his centrism and apparent lack of character make Laschet the candidate with the fewest passions inside and outside the party.

His management of the coronavirus crisis has been mediocre and the many platforms that the media have given him, opportunities that others did not have, have only served to highlight his lack of knowledge on European or foreign policy issues .

His desire for harmony and understanding ensure the balm that the CDU needs to heal its internal wounds, but Laschet, if he wins the presidency, will need a lot of filming to get rid of the halo of a provincial politician and become the chancellor of the first economy of the European Union.

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