… Syria and elsewhere that began in 2013 and peaked in 2015-16. Kramp-Karrenbauer, known colloquially as AKK, was first … percent, compared with 4.1 percent in 2013. Speaking the day after the vote in Hesse, Merkel, who had been the CDU … set off a firestorm. Kramp-Karrenbauer said it was “a bad day for Thuringia and a bad day for Germany” and that …