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       Re: AKK
       By: SHL Date: November 8, 2018, 11:08 am
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       That’s fine, but I`ve not a fan of board games for adults. I
       gave that up at age 17 and went on to more adult activities.
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       Re: AKK
       By: Alharacas Date: December 9, 2018, 4:57 am
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       Just a little update: yes, you'd better start practicing.
       Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has been elected as the new
       chairwoman of the CDU (Angela Merkel's party), and there are
       rumours she may be replacing her as the chancellor sooner rather
       than later.
       (In Germany, you vote for the party, not the person.)
       Which is all to the good - no, not the replacing, AKK's supposed
       to be much more conservative than Angie, but that she was chosen
       over Friedrich Merz, a guy who looks eerily like the
       Chupacabras:
  HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabra
       Now, let's all say a little prayer for the Chupacabra to become
       minister of the exterior. Any other job, and he'd make us lose
       our place on the corruption index faster than you can say
       BlackRock (he just happens to be their chairman of the board).
       Fortunately, he really put his foot in his mouth when he first
       started waffling when asked about his yearly income (several
       millions, but how many, exactly?) during a TV interview, and
       then claimed to be "middle-class". (Upper-class presumably being
       the preserve of Bill Gates and the Thurn and Taxis family who
       owns roughly half of Bavaria.) This - surprise! - did not go
       over well with anyone. As one of my friends, one I'd consider
       "middle-class", remarked a bit sourly, he now felt like he
       should be entitled to benefits.
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       Re: AKK
       By: Aliph Date: December 9, 2018, 8:10 am
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       [quote author=Alharacas link=topic=583.msg10049#msg10049
       date=1544353031]
       Just a little update: yes, you'd better start practicing.
       Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has been elected as the new
       chairwoman of the CDU (Angela Merkel's party), and there are
       rumours she may be replacing her as the chancellor sooner rather
       than later.
       [/quote]
       Her name sounds like a tongtwister and the acronym reminds me of
       the name of a machine gun (though not sure about). French
       newspapers call her « the mini-Merkel »
       But isn’t Angie supposed to stay until 2020?
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       Re: AKK
       By: Alharacas Date: December 9, 2018, 12:05 pm
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       Sofia, if you read my original post, the one I started this
       thread with, you'll see how much I agree with you. ;)
       Hopefully, AKK won't be so much "mini" as "Merkel" (fat lot of
       hope of getting that we have).
       Angie keeps getting a lot of flak from her party's self-declared
       "homeless" right-wingers (they'd best move to Bavaria where they
       can vote for the CSU), and had already said she wasn't going to
       run again come 2021. Traditionally, the party chair is the
       chancellor's, so I suppose Angie's either terminally fed up,
       will soon retire, and wishes to give her successor a shot at
       running the country for a couple of years, sort of a trial run
       before the next election - or she wants to keep a beady eye on
       her would-be successor UNTIL the next election. Who knows?
       As I said, we vote for the party, not for the person, so in
       theory at least, exchanging one chancellor for another is not a
       problem.
       IMO, the question is whether the pretty shaky coalition (CDU/CSU
       + SPD) has any chance of holding up until 2021 under anyone but
       Merkel.
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