… elected to the position by a party conference later that month. In October 2018, the CDU’s Bavarian sister party, the … received 44 votes, the AfD nominee received 22, and 24 abstained. On the third ballot, Ramelow received 44 votes … and also Kramp-Karrenbauer, Germany will assume the six-month Council presidency of the EU on July 1—something that …