German CDU politician Armin Laschet will resign as prime minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia on Monday, the German news agency DPA reported. If he has done so, he can be sworn in as a member of parliament in Berlin on Tuesday.
Laschet actually hoped to become the new Chancellor of Germany, the successor to Angela Merkel. But the Union, as CDU and CSU are collectively called, won 24.1 percent of the vote in the Bundestag elections. worst national result in the party’s history.
Coalition
Earlier this month, Laschet said that the party had to be reformed and in doing so he hinted at his own departure. The new state leader of the CDU will then be nominated on Wednesday. DPA writes that according to the current plans, Minister Hendrik Wüst of Transport will take over.
Meanwhile, coalition negotiations between the Social Democratic SPD, the Greens and the liberal FDP have begun. If the negotiations succeed, Social Democrat Olaf Scholz will succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor after 16 years.
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