Since the election results of Sunday, if you follow German politics....there's been a fair amount of criticism over the past strategies and leadership of Chancellor Merkel (from her own party members), and over the Party Chief of the CDU (AKK, who is now the Party Chief and Defense Minister).
The blunt side of this is that a fair number of typical CDU-voters simply aren't that happy over migration, Merkel's leadership demonstrations, or the idea of AKK being the 2021 party Chancellor candidate.
So who is lining up to be the alternate Chancellor candidate? You have two possibilities:
1. Markus Soder of the CSU (Bavaria)
2. Friedrich Merz of the CDU
Both are fairly well known within the Party and throughout Germany. Neither gets any plus points from the pro-Merkel or pro-AKK crowd. Part of this dislike discussion centers around intellectualism, and how Germans rate each other on some imaginary intellectual scale. Merz is more of a businessman, and Soder is more of a finance 'wiz'.
Here's the thing though....the only election for the next fourteen months will be a early 2020 election in Hamburg.....where the CDU in local state politics is expected to do lousy. Beyond that....2020 promises to be a quiet year. So if you were critical of Merkel, now is the time to get mileage.
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