BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday she regretted the decision of her protegee Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer not to stand as their party's candidate for the chancellorship in Germany's next federal election.
Kramp-Karrenbauer's announcement earlier on Monday was part of the fall-out from her failure to impose discipline on her party's branch in the eastern state of Thuringia, which helped into office a local leader backed by the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD).
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