… elected to the position by a party conference later that month. In October 2018, the CDU’s Bavarian sister party, the … 2018 and wouldn’t seek reelection as chancellor in the 2021 federal election: “This my fourth term is my last term … percent, while the vote for the AfD nearly doubled, from 12.2 percent in 2014 to 23.5 percent. In Saxony, the CDU’s …