Before posing the question who may become the next CDU chancellery candidate, the question who will succeed AKK as general secretary must be solved. Young Union chairman Paul Ziemiak is being discussed.
I will now accept my accolades!
He, however, received a very low result: 62.8%.
Polish fifth column in CDU, great. And I guess this is some sort of compromise, Ziemiak is rather conservative. As for the deal Ziemiak even few days before congress it was pretty sure that he will vote Merz so probably there was some secret deal because such sudden changes are rather rare without any earlier decisions.