Post-Merkel Germany awaits to see whether party’s favourite can fill her shoes

Five days from polls, CDU candidate Armin Laschet is struggling to live up to his brief

Angela Merkel’s shoe size is 38, she revealed to a rain-sodden, momentarily confused audience at an election rally on the Baltic coast on Tuesday night.

In European measurements, that is relatively small, which means her shoes should not be too hard to fill. “That’s manageable,” Merkel said. As the German chancellor chuckled mischievously, she gestured towards the man on her left, a 33-year-old tax auditor who is running to inherit the north-eastern constituency she has held since it was created in 1990.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/3EGkwhS