German political heavyweight Angela Merkel avoided discussing her party’s latest election defeats on Monday, instead backing the Christian Democratic Union to return to its identity as a broad-based “people’s party.” The party and its current leader, Chancellor Friedrich Merz, are under pressure following disastrous election results that saw them lose to the far-right Alternative for Germany. Merkel, who led Germany from 2005 to 2021, did not mention the elections or Merz directly. Her only apparent reference to Sunday’s results came obliquely: “On a day like today, and after an evening like yesterday, it is perhaps worth thinking once again about what we can take from Konrad Adenauer,” she said.
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