The leadership of the CDU Party (Merkel's right-of-center political party)....was supposed to have a big meeting in five weeks....to determine the party chief (not the Chancellor candidate). There's a discussion underway now....to halt the planning for this, and suspend the party meeting. Chief reason? Covid-19 numbers.
The necessity for the meeting? AKK (Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer), the current chief wants to exit the door, and whoever would be elected as party chief....would generally be slated to be the Chancellor candidate in the fall of 2021.
If you go back two years ago...AKK was brought in and hyped up. She was Merkel's hand-picked person to fill the Chancellor candidate's shoes. What she didn't grasp at the time....Merkel intended to dump a second job upon her.....Defense Minister. So with that job, came a lot of criticism. AKK has done well, but she's learned that this whole Defense Minister job has smeared a lot of negativity upon her. So, the exit makes sense.
Merkel screwing up and dumping two key jobs upon AKK? More or less.
So back to the idea of the party meeting (roughly 1,000 members) and the odds of cancellation. I'd say it's a 95-percent chance that the full meeting will not be held. Maybe they could crank up 10 smaller meetings with video-teleconferencing in the mix....but even that would be a mess for Covid-19 problems.
Waiting until March or April? That really opens up a mess with the election just six months away.
Whoever making the party chief job....not being the Chancellor candidate? This has been whispered around and is a rumor as well.
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