Armin Laschet

Issued on: 07/10/2021 - 21:42 The beleaguered chief of Angela Merkel’s CDU party signalled Thursday that he was ready to step aside as leader of the conservatives, after an election…

Issued on: 28/09/2021 - 14:22 After narrowly beating Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Sunday’s general election, members of Germany’s Social Democrats…

Issued on: 27/09/2021 - 15:17 The centre-left Social Democrats led by Olaf Scholz narrowly defeated Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives in Sunday's vote to decide her successor,…

Exit polls put Germany’s two major parties neck and neck coming out of Sunday’s polls. While the official results have yet to be released, Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff says the overall trend is clear: Germans voted for the…

Issued on: 26/09/2021 - 07:45 Germany goes to the polls today in one of the most unpredictable elections in its recent history. Angela Merkel's conservatives led by Armin Laschet and…

Issued on: 25/09/2021 - 14:34 Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday urged Germans to give her would-be successor Armin Laschet the vote to shape Germany's future, in a last-ditch push…

Issued on: 24/09/2021 - 04:12 The two candidates running neck-and-neck to replace Angela Merkel as German chancellor called for a stronger European Union on Thursday, in a final TV …

Issued on: 15/09/2021 - 19:00 For the first time in over a decade, Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) is leading in polls of voter intentions in front of Angela Merkel's…

Issued on: 13/09/2021 - 09:54 Armin Laschet, the struggling chancellor candidate from Angela Merkel's conservative camp, went on the attack against his centre-left rival in a lively…