… elected to the position by a party conference later that month. In October 2018, the CDU’s Bavarian sister party, the … percent, while the vote for the AfD nearly doubled, from 12.2 percent in 2014 to 23.5 percent. In Saxony, the CDU’s … and also Kramp-Karrenbauer, Germany will assume the six-month Council presidency of the EU on July 1—something that …