Germany: CDU party board backs Armin Laschet as chancellor candidate msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Green co-president is a candidate for Germany s elections
Green co-president is a candidate for Germany s elections
Berlin, Apr 19 (Prensa Latina) Annalena Baerbock, co-president of the German Green Party, on Monday became the candidate for federal chancellor in the September general elections.
Annalena Baerbock will be the first Green candidate for the Chancellery, she will guide us in this campaign with a view to the September 26 elections, the other party president, Robert Habeck, who also aspired to succeed Angela Merkel, said in a press briefing.
This will be the first time that the organization fights for the position of Federal Chancellor.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - A leading German Christian Democrat has called for the conservative bloc’s choice of chancellor candidate for September’s election to be dependent on popularity ratings, effectively shifting his support behind Bavarian Markus Soeder.
FILE PHOTO: Saxony-Anhalt s Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff attends a news conference on coal phase-out laws in Berlin, Germany July 3, 2020. John MacDougall/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
With CDU Chancellor Angela Merkel stepping down after the election, pressure is mounting on the bloc to agree on a candidate as its ratings wallow near a one-year low, hurt by the government’s chaotic handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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German federalism: How does it work?
Germany is a federal republic for historical reasons. But the system also has disadvantages. As can be seen in the struggle to contain the COVID pandemic.
All of Germany s 16 states have their own flags
The territory at the heart of Europe that we now call Germany has a rich and varied history and federal structures have existed there in some form for centuries.
Unlike in neighboring France, where Paris became the seat of government and military stronghold early in the Middle Ages, east of the Rhine river it was local princes and lords who ruled the area that, despite a shared language and culture, was far more disjointed.