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Germany's Merkel says she won't weigh in on successor

by Associated Press
| July 14, 2020 7:27 AM

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel stressed Tuesday that she will keep out of a debate on who should be her center-right political bloc’s candidate to become Germany’s next leader after a state governor whose poll ratings soared during the coronavirus pandemic gave her a grand reception in Bavaria.

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