{"id":49923,"date":"2018-12-08T09:44:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T09:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=49923"},"modified":"2018-12-08T09:44:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T09:44:36","slug":"merkel-bids-emotional-farewell-to-cdu-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=49923","title":{"rendered":"Merkel bids emotional farewell to CDU party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img class=\"wp-image-49924 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/220324germany-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"804\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/220324germany-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/220324germany.jpg 660w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 804px) 100vw, 804px\" \/>International desk: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has given an emotional farewell speech to her ruling Christian Democrats (CDU), as she steps down as party leader.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;Our liberal values must be defended, internally and externally,&#8221; she said, according to BBC report.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">She hinted that she was backing Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to succeed her, praising her electoral performance as chief minister of Saarland.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Despite quitting as CDU leader Ms Merkel plans to remain German chancellor until her term ends in 2021.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ms Kramp-Karrenbauer's chief rival in Friday's CDU vote is millionaire corporate lawyer Friedrich Merz.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The third candidate, health minister Jens Spahn, appears to have less chance of winning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ms Merkel's speech was punctuated by applause and she got a standing ovation of more than six minutes at the end. CDU delegates at the congress in Hamburg also held up signs saying &#8220;Thanks boss&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Then the conservative party paid tribute to Ms Merkel, 64, with a video showing highlights from her 18-year CDU leadership. The soundtrack was the 1960s hit Days, by The Kinks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International desk: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has given an emotional farewell speech to her ruling Christian Democrats (CDU), as she steps down as party leader. &#8220;Our liberal values must be defended, internally and externally,&#8221; she said, according to BBC report. She hinted that she was backing Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to succeed her, praising her electoral performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":49924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=49923\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Merkel bids emotional farewell to CDU party - Bornomalanews.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"International desk: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has given an emotional farewell speech to her ruling Christian Democrats (CDU), as she steps down as party leader. &#8220;Our liberal values must be defended, internally and externally,&#8221; she said, according to BBC report. 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