… elected to the position by a party conference later that month. In October 2018, the CDU’s Bavarian sister party, the … the CDU and its Bavarian sister party, the CSU won 28.9 percent of the vote, a loss of 6.5 percentage points … and also Kramp-Karrenbauer, Germany will assume the six-month Council presidency of the EU on July 1—something that …