With Angela Merkel in the twilight of her tenure as chancellor, her party is struggling to assert its identify in the face of growing far right violence and work out how to deal with the anti-migrant AfD AFP/kenzo tribouillardBERLIN: Senior members of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling Christian Democratic Union warned Saturday the party was in crisis as it tries to keep its distance from both the hard right and left.
"We are going through a crisis of confidence," Health Minister and rising party star Jens Spahn said Saturday."This is about the CDU's credibility in Germany," ahead of elections which must take place by next year, added party secretary general Paul Ziemiak. That will likely mean the re-election of the Left's Bodo Ramelow, denied by last month's controversial initial vote, to head a minority leftist government until fresh local elections next April.
Wolfgang Schaeuble, the CDU's former Interior minister and now Bundestag president, ruled out"any cooperation between the CDU" and the Left as the latter"is the legal successor of the old SED," the old East Germany's ruling party -- even if Ramelow is a moderate leftist.
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