The youth wing of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives voted on ...
FILE PHOTO: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Defence Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer attend a board meeting of Germany's Christian Democratic Union in Berlin, Germany, September 30, 2019. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke/File Photo
The vote by the Junge Union could force Merkel’s Christian Democrats to discuss the possibility of such a ballot when they meet at a party congress in November, potentially disrupting Merkel’s efforts to stage manage an orderly handover. Junge Union head Tilman Kuban said on Twitter that 61% of the 277 votes collected during a congress in the western city of Saarbruecken were in favor of a ballot on who should lead the conservatives in the next election.
But Kramp-Karrenbauer’s gaffes - including poking fun at trans-gender people in a light-hearted carnival speech - have raised questions about her political instincts and trashed her popularity ratings.
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