Ms Kramp-Karrenbauer is playing a shrewd game
DUMPING ON VOTERS is rarely a winning strategy for politicians. But Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, who leads the Christian Democratic Union , Germany’s largest party, says her compatriots are becoming “the most uptight people in the world”. Ms Kramp-Karrenbauer had been criticised for a joke, made during west Germany’s riotous carnival season, about “third-gender bathrooms” for “men who can’t decide if they want to sit or stand when they pee”. But she was not in the mood to apologise.
In policy, too, Ms Kramp-Karrenbauer is signalling a rightward shift. During a recent CDU workshop she backed a policy of closing Germany’s borders as a last resort during a migration crisis. That unsettled moderates who supported Mrs Merkel’s open-border approach in 2015, but for now most accept the need for internal bridge-building. The mood in the CDU is “very upbeat”, says one MP.
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