Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is preparing to govern the country, leaders said on Thursday, with only one year to go until parliamentary elections. The centre-right party has been in opposition since 2021, when Social Democrat (SPD) Olaf Scholz won the race to succeed former CDU chancellor Angela Merkel. With Scholz’s party and coalition partners the Greens and liberals (FDP) languishing in the polls after a difficult term marked by Germany’s flagging economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine, the CDU is well-placed to return to power in next September…