Merkel’s Successor Faces Party Revolt Over Bid to Be Chancellor
- Kramp-Karrenbauer challenged over leadership in party meeting
- AKK says still plans to be chancellor candidate in next vote
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The leader of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union has been forced to fend off a challenge to her planned bid to become the next German chancellor the day after a “bitter” regional election loss.
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, who succeeded Merkel as CDU leader last year, confirmed that the head of the party’s youth wing questioned her position in an executive board meeting in Berlin on Monday. AKK, as she’s known, said that she intends to be the candidate for the country’s top job in the next election and that any party members wanting to question that can do so at next month’s party conference.