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Greens Choose Baerbock as Candidate for Germany’s Next Leader
Annalena Baerbock is the first Green candidate to have a significant shot at becoming chancellor. The party is running second to Germany’s conservatives, who are in a deadlock over their own choice for the job.
Annalena Baerbock was named Monday as the candidate for chancellor for Germany’s Greens. Credit.Annegret Hilse/Reuters
April 19, 2021Updated 10:02 a.m. ET
BERLIN Germany’s Greens announced Monday that Annalena Baerbock would be the party’s candidate for chancellor, betting that the 40-year-old was their best choice to replace Angela Merkel as leader of the country.
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Party leaders in tug-of-war for Merkel’s crown
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AFP, BERLIN
The head of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) secured the backing of the party’s leaders on Monday, a key boost for his campaign to succeed the veteran leader at elections in September, but his rival has signaled that he would not go down without a fight.
At a meeting in Berlin, CDU leaders threw their support behind Armin Laschet to lead the party and its smaller sister party, the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU), to the polls on Sept. 26 when Merkel is to retire after 16 years as chancellor.