CDU: Merkel at a CDU get together convention for the primary time since changing into chancellor | EUROtoday

Surprisingly, former Chancellor Angela Merkel will participate in a CDU get together convention on February twentieth for the primary time since leaving workplace. “Former Chancellor Dr. Merkel will accept the invitation and take part as a guest of honor on the first day of the party conference (February 20, 2026) up to and including the election of the party chairman,” her workplace informed the German Press Agency upon request. A CDU spokeswoman confirmed participation.

Merkel was invited to the get together convention as a former get together chief. That’s so widespread. She final bodily took half in a CDU federal get together convention in Leipzig in 2019. The final get together convention in her time period as Chancellor occurred digitally in 2021 as a result of Corona. In December 2021, Merkel was changed as Chancellor by Olaf Scholz (SPD). She didn’t settle for the invites to the federal get together conferences in 2022 and 2024.

On the primary day of the get together convention in Stuttgart, Friedrich Merz is to be re-elected as chairman. The relationship between Merkel and Merz is taken into account deeply damaged. The ex-Chancellor has repeatedly publicly criticized Merz as opposition chief after which as Chancellor. She was within the Bundestag when he was elected chancellor on May 6 final yr, however left after the primary spherical of voting failed. She canceled her participation within the Chancellor’s seventieth birthday celebration in November due to a visit to Israel.