FILE PHOTO: Armin Laschet, chairman of the German Christian Democratic Union, CDU, addresses the media during a news conference at the party's headquarters in Berlin, Germany May 17, 2021. Michael Sohn/Pool via REUTERS
BERLIN (Reuters) - Armin Laschet, Chancellor Angela Merkel's would-be successor, desperately needs his Christian Democrats to win a regional vote on Sunday to avoid questions resurfacing about whether he is the right candidate to lead them into September's federal election.
The sparsely-populated eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt is home to just 2.2 million people, but Sunday's election has outsized significance as the last regional vote before Germans elect a government for the post-Merkel era on Sept. 26.
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