German conservative leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer on Monday faced a rebellio...
BERLIN - German conservative leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer on Monday faced a rebellion by party members angry at a humiliating election result in eastern Thuringia state where the Christian Democrats lost voters to both the far left and far right.
The CDU dropped from first to third place in Thuringia, falling behind the far-right Alternative for Germany and the far-left Linke party, which came first with just over 30% of the vote. A poll published after the election in Thuringia on Sunday showed that more than 70% of CDU voters in the eastern state want their party to join a Linke-led coalition.
But at a joint news conference in Berlin, Mohring and Kramp-Karrenbauer tried to play down their differences, struggling to hide the fact they had agreed to disagree on how to respond to an invitation for talks from Thuringia’s Linke premier Bodo Ramelow. Kramp-Karrenbauer, known as AKK, has been weakened by gaffes and her failure to revive the conservatives’ fortunes at the ballot box. The party suffered painful losses at European Parliament elections in May and three votes in eastern Germany.
“Angela Merkel and CDU leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer could share a prize for causing the exodus that brought us here,” Bild wrote. “AKKatastrophe!”
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