Kinder, Kueche, CDU?

摘要

For now, there is only one serious candidate left in the running for the leadership of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). After the withdrawal on March 5th of Volker Ruehe, a former defence minister, Angela Merkel, the party's general secretary, has become the hot favourite among the rank and file to take over next month. But in the eyes of the Christian Democratic leadership and of its conservative Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), Mrs Merkel suffers from a grave drawback: not only does she come from the former communist east, but she is also a woman.