Merkel rival Merz joins CDU party leadership race ...News

German conservative Friedrich Merz, an erstwhile rival of Chancellor Angela Merkel, confirmed on Tuesday that he will run for the leadership of her Christian Democrats (CDU) at a party congress on April 25. “I have decided to run again for the post of party chairman at this party congress,” Merz told reporters in Berlin. “It is not a break with the past but a start and a renewal for the future.” The premier of Germany’s most populous state Armin Laschet joined the race to lead the CDU earlier on Tuesday and won the backing of Health Minister Jens Spahn, who had been expected to run himself. Laschet, who leads North Rhine-Westphalia, is widely seen as the Merkel conti

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