Germany’s centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party on Saturday set their sights firmly on victory in the 2025 parliamentary elections. “We are determined to win this Bundestag election in a year’s time,” CDU leader Friedrich Merz told a party conference of the Christian Social Union (CSU) in the Bavarian city of Augsburg. Germany needs a government that is not hamstrung by in-fighting, Merz said in a shot at the deeply unpopular centre-left coalition government led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz. “We will lead a government in which the public disputes finally stop,” Me…