What did Angela Merkel do?

A member of the Christian Democratic Union, Merkel is the first female chancellor of Germany. Merkel was the first woman to be elected as Chancellor, and the first Chancellor since German reunification to have been raised in the former East Germany.

Is Angela Merkel still the chancellor of Germany?

The chancellor is elected by the Bundestag on the proposal of the federal president and without debate (Article 63 of the German Constitution). The current officeholder is Angela Merkel, who was elected in 2005 and re-elected in 2009, 2013 and 2018. She is the first woman to be elected chancellor.

Who are the leaders of the CDU and CSU?

However, in practice the committees of the parties harmonise their decisions with each other and the leader of one party is usually invited to party conventions of the other party. Both the CDU and CSU are members of the European People’s Party and the International Democrat Union.

How are the CDU and CSU related in Germany?

According to German Federal Electoral Law, members of a parliamentary group which share the same basic political aims must not compete with one another in any federal state. The CSU contests elections only in Bavaria, while the CDU operates in the other 15 states of Germany.

Where did the CDU and CSU meet in 1976?

After the CDU/CSU narrowly lost the West German federal election of 1976 which had seen Kohl as the common chancellor candidate of the two parties, the CSU’s future Bundestag representatives met on 19 November at a closed meeting at Wildbad Kreuth in a Hanns Seidel Foundation compound, which is CSU’s educational foundation.

How is the Christian Social Union different from the CDU?

Having a regionalist identity, the CSU operates only in Bavaria while its larger counterpart, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), operates in the other fifteen states of Germany. It differs from the CDU by being somewhat more conservative in social matters, following the Catholic social teaching.