
The future of the CDU as a people's party is at stake. The reeling Chancellor announces course corrections. Is there insight or pure desperation behind it?
After elections, the future of the CDU as a people's party is at stake, while a vacillating Chancellor announces course corrections and Friedrich Merz shows a sense of justice.
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After elections, the media discusses the situation of the CDU and the role of Friedrich Merz.
CDU after the elections The fall of the Chancellor has been postponed. Then Merz discovers his sense of justice
The future of the CDU as a people's party is at stake. The reeling Chancellor announces course corrections. Is there insight or pure desperation behind it?
The CDU presidium will hold a meeting in Berlin on October 11th to analyze the consequences of the heavy electoral defeats in the state elections in September. Party leader Friedrich Merz is under massive pressure after the losses.

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