The race to succeed Angela Merkel as Germany’s chancellor became more unpredictable than ever on Monday, when her protegée Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer announced she wouldn’t run for chancellor, and quit as leader of the centre-right CDU party.
France 24 takes a look at four possible candidates for the chancellery after Merkel’s fourth and final term comes to an end.
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