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Theresa May resigns as party leader and Tories change rules to speed selection of new one
… The rules prohibit more than one vote in any 12-month period and she had won such a vote in December. May … of the agreement to vote for it. Nevertheless, on Mar. 29, the House rejected the agreement for the third time, by a vote of 344 to 286. After a tumultuous month that saw the government lose a record number of council …
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AKK resigns as CDU chair, and Germany and Europe wonder who will lead after Merkel
… elected to the position by a party conference later that month. In October 2018, the CDU’s Bavarian sister party, the … 90-seat Landtag. In last October’s election, the Left won 29 seats, the SPD won eight seats, and the Greens won five … and also Kramp-Karrenbauer, Germany will assume the six-month Council presidency of the EU on July 1—something that …