Angela Merkel; politician; CDU; Germany; the Federal Chancellor speech during the extraordinary party congress of the CDU; at which the continuation of the grand coalition with the SPD is decided. Election of Annegret Kamp-Karrenbauer as the new general secretary of the CDU. From left to right: David MacAllister; State Chairman of the CDU in Lower Saxony; Thomas de Maiziere; Minister of the Interior; Volker Bouffier; Prime Minister of Hesse; Annegret Kamp-Karrenbauer; Prime Minister of Saarland and new Secretary General of the CDU; Angela Merkel; Ursula von der Leyen; Minister of Defense; Thomas Strobl; State Chairman of the CDU in Baden-W黵ttemberg and Julia Kl鯿kner; Minister of Agriculture.Berlin; February 26; 2018.