Fourth candidate for CDU Party leadership and next Chancellor Candidate? Yes....at least Focus (the magazine says that this morning).
The guy? Norbert Röttgen, who is mostly known as the party foreign affairs expert. Widely known? Within the party, yes.....nation-wide, I would suggest less so.
What you can say about him is that he's extremely pro-EU, and that he feels a number of former CDU-voters have gone to the far-right (AfD) because the CDU refused to engage or talk realistically about migration and asylum.
What'd he do about migration and asylum? Unknown....he leaves this part out.
He does suggest that the party must reach out beyond the center-point where it occupies, and take on left/right issues. This would mean leaving the Merkel strategy and changing the face of the current government.
Likely odds here? I could see him being a close second to Merz (who leads currently).
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