FILE PHOTO: Chairman of the Junge Union (Young Union) and candidate for CDU's secretary general Paul Ziemiak speaks during the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party congress in Hamburg, Germany, December 8, 2018. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats want to get on with implementing their coalition deal with Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) but working with them won't get any easier after they elected new leftist leaders, a senior CDU official said.
At a party conference on Friday, SPD delegates appointed two critics of the coalition to lead their party jointly after months of turmoil and dismal performances in regional and European elections.
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