… Syria and elsewhere that began in 2013 and peaked in 2015-16. Kramp-Karrenbauer, known colloquially as AKK, was first … elected to the position by a party conference later that month. In October 2018, the CDU’s Bavarian sister party, the … 10.2 percent. In Hesse, the vote for the CDU dropped by 11.3 percentage points, from 38.3 percent in 2013 to 27 …