Germany's BILD newspaper reports this morning that the new CDU Party chief (AKK) had a quiet 90-minute meeting with her challenger from last week's little party election (Friedrich Merz).
As much as AKK would like to move on and just pretend that Merz and his coalition within the CDU Party don't matter.....she can't really move on.
No one talks numbers but I would speculate that between 30 and 40 percent of the CDU folks are kinda fed up with the 'Merkel-path' of the past fifteen-odd years. Merz? His interest is to put some change in the works with the German economy, and give industry a boost. In the end, if she were to win in 2021.....Merz might figure he'd get the Finance Minister slot out of this deal (currently in the hands of the SPD in this coalition government).
The problem though? Well, he is to always be the 'elephant in the room'. In a Merkel-run situation....she'd dismiss the 'elephant' rather quickly. Whether AKK will do that or not....is the big unknown.
No comments:
Post a Comment