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16 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
#BREAKING Merkel ally Armin Laschet elected Germany's CDU party chief: official Image
VIDEO: Angela Merkel's conservative CDU party picks her ally Armin Laschet as its next leader, in a key vote that kicks off the race for Germany's top job as a deadly pandemic roils Europe's biggest economy
Who is Armin Laschet? The new head of Germany's conservative CDU party, is a sworn European and defender of multiculturalism who has promised to continue the centrist course of Chancellor Angela Merkel
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#UPDATE Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative CDU party on Saturday picked her ally Armin Laschet as its next leader, in a vote that kicks off the race for Germany's top job as a deadly pandemic roils Europe's biggest economy
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