One-time rival of Germany's Merkel assails her leadership
BERLIN (AP) ” A one-time rival of German Chancellor Angela Merkel has assailed her leadership style, adding to tensions in her center-right party after its dismal performance in a state election.Friedrich Merz, 63, ran last year to succeed Merkel as leader of her conservative Christian Democratic Union but was narrowly defeated by Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. He still has many supporters in the party.On Sunday, the CDU finished third in an election in Thuringia, a state it once […]
