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that she is stepping down as party leader in december and stepping down as chancellor in two thousand and twenty one mr mansour said nothing today about aspirations to be the next chancellor but maneuvering to become the next c.d.u. party leader puts him on a direct course for the chancellor e. today s announcement ends marriages decade long self-imposed exile from german politics now at the beginning of this century he and i m going to medical they were rivals within the c.d.u. and we all know the history america would go on to become chancellor and in two thousand and nine merits called it quits well now he wants back in and he wants to win the latest polls show him as the clear favorite to lead the party and the country and regarding his to mulch was passed with chancellor merkel today mr maritz almost sounded like mr magnanimous
a member of the job report for chancellor angela merkel s christian democrats he also knows free treatment very well they both come from the same area of western germany and mr gore took over the sea that mr maritz vacated when he left parliament back in two thousand and nine mrs bruce good to have you back on the show thank you when did you find out that mr maritz will campaign to become the next leader of your party i think it was a process the process started i think when we knew in our party that. will step back we knew that this is the last period as a chancellor and we knew some time in between two thousand and eighteen and two twenty twenty one she had to step back and now we had two elections in bavaria and we knew from the opinion polls that the results were not so lovely for our party we
colleagues he talked to members of our parliamentary group but the time the exact date that wasn t clear for him as well of course i mean the medical in the first step made the decision by telling on monday she s not kennett dating again in the party election in that he didn t waste any time either announcing his candidacy it s been what forty eight hours since chancellor merkel and they ll serve phased withdrawal from politics and we re already late compared to others they were faster has really been faster and is a fast race here there s a clear favorite if we could take a look at the poll numbers there we go now the woman groomed by miracle to follow her on the cover and by who s known as a k.k. she she s got about nineteen percent support and then you ve got lashon who dropped out of the race today you ve got your spawn currently the health minister just six percent and there you have right there mr maritz way ahead with thirty three