German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer during a Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party congress in Berlin, Germany, February 26, 2018. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
BERLIN (Reuters) - Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer's election as general-secretary of Germany's ruling party puts her in pole position to succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor after spending most of her career in a tiny state on the French border.
Combining social conservatism with left-wing economic views, AKK - as she is often known - is a close Merkel ally.
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