… as CDU chair, and Germany and Europe wonder who will lead after Merkel … AKK resigns as CDU chair, and Germany and … percent, compared with 4.1 percent in 2013. Speaking the day after the vote in Hesse, Merkel, who had been the CDU … won 29 seats, the SPD won eight seats, and the Greens won five seats—in all, 42 seats, not enough to win the absolute …