According to Reuters, German conservative Annegret Kramp Karrenbauer won most support in a vote on Friday to choose a successor for Angela Merkel as leader of their Christian Democrats. However, a final round of voting is needed to determine an outright winner. Kramp-Karrenbauer won 450 votes, compared with 392 votes for Friedrich Merz in the first round. The CDU’s 1,001 delegates immediately began voting in a run-off between Kramp-Karrenbauer and Merz to decide the winner.
