Chancellor Angela Merkel's would-be successor, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, ...
BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel’s would-be successor, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, struggled to assert her control over her conservative party on Friday after a regional branch defied her by backing a local leader helped into office by the far right.
That move, which saw Thomas Kemmerich of the pro-business FDP become the first state premier to get into power with the support of the AfD, shattered a post-war consensus among established parties to shun the far right. She also blamed the left for seeking to keep its candidate in power without a majority, and the FDP for putting up its candidate in the first place.
“Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, who absolutely wants to become chancellor, has shown that her authority and leadership are not even sufficient to tame the CDU regional chapter in Thuringia,” the conservative Bild newspaper wrote in a commentary.
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