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Members of Germany’s centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) have re-elected conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz to another two-year term as the party’s chairman. Merz, 68, received just short of 90% of the vote at the CDU’s national party conference in Berlin on Monday. Merz expressed his thanks “for the great vote of confidence.” “I am looking forward to the work that lies ahead of us over the next two years,” said Merz, who has previously pledged to bring his party – along with its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU) – back to power at the next parliamentary ele…

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