German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks to delegates of Germany's largest industrial union IG Metall during the trade union congress in Nuremberg, Germany October 10, 2019. REUTERS/Andreas Gebert
BERLIN (Reuters) - The youth wing of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives voted on Friday in favour of a members' ballot on who should be the bloc's next chancellor candidate, dealing a setback to front-runner Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer.
The vote by the Junge Union could force Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) to discuss the possibility of such a ballot when they meet at a party congress in November, potentially disrupting Merkel's efforts to stage manage an orderly handover.
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