CDU Head Has No Ambitions for Chancellor’s Office Before Merkel’s Term End

The head of the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, who replaced Chancellor Angela Merkel in this post, said in an interview that she did not plan to become the country’s Chancellor before the official expiration of Merkel’s term in 2021.
“The Chancellor and the government were elected for the entire term of office, and citizens rightly expect them to be serious about the obligations arising from these elections. Therefore, I can rule out any efforts for meaningless changes”, Kramp-Karrenbauer told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper.

 
Back in July, CDU and the CSU agreed to take measures to curb undocumented migrant flows into Germany. The deal reportedly included, among other things, boosting control along the border to prevent irregular migrants from entering the country, as well as the creation of transit centres in Germany, where migrants will stay up to two days before deportation to other EU countries where they were originally registered.  
Since February 2018, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has become the secretary general of the CDU after being nominated by Merkel. This gave grounds for the German media to call Kramp-Karrenbauer the “successor and protege” of the chancellor as party leader.