Armin Laschet, the state premier of Germany’s most populous state, North-Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), has won the inner-party election of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU), putting him in the pole position to succeed the Chancellor who, after four terms in office, has decided against running in the general elections in September. –

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