To farewell Angela Merkel got a baton as a gift. The new conductor of the CDU needed him, of course, urgent. Because the orchestra, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, after a week-long bet, music took over with Friedrich Merz and Jens Spahn, bowed under the predecessor to dissonance more and more.

Now, however, the leadership question is decided, and The CDU has narrowly, the continuity of the Experiment, preferred. But even with Kramp-Karrenbauer, the party chose a simple More-so. The mother of three children under the dash with your combative speech at the party Congress, that is a rhetorical question not a “Mini-Merkel”.

A warm embrace for Merkel

Kramp-Karrenbauer, Merz, and Spahn gave up for a vote at the party Congress a great and fair battle for the party presidency. The decision has now been taken. However, the struggle for the future of the CDU, it is not. Kramp cart Builder primary task is to now lead the “together”, which had not been randomly made to the party tags motto.

The new Chairman will not have to try to keep Spahn and Merz as near as possible to the Flag. You will also need to the supporters of the two candidates is a programmatic offers, to overcome the chasms opened up in the party in the late phase of the Era of Merkel.