… lead after Merkel Last Monday, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s preferred successor, … a loss of 6.5 percentage points from the 35.4 percent the parties won in the 2014 EP election while the Greens nearly … Party (SED) of the Communist era, formed a Red-Red-Green coalition, consisting of the Left, the SPD, and the Greens, …