| Author (Person) | Peel, Quentin |
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| Series Title | Financial Times |
| Series Details | 13.9.10 |
| Publication Date | 13/09/2010 |
| Content Type | News |
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A conservative revolt against the leadership of Angela Merkel in Germany’s ruling Christian Democratic Union burst into the open over the weekend of 11-12 September 2010 with public criticism of the chancellor’s centrist political stance. Several prominent members of the CDU and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, warned of a leftward drift in the leadership, after a leading conservative member of the CDU executive Erika Steinbach announced that she would quit the party’s ruling body. |
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| Countries / Regions | Germany |
