Chancellor Angela Merkel's heir apparent faced criticism from across German...
BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel’s heir apparent faced criticism from across Germany’s political spectrum on Tuesday after she called for rules about expressing online opinions before elections in response to a YouTube video that criticized her party.
Germany’s two main parties were both hammered in an election for the European Parliament over the weekend, with voters under the age of 30 in particular largely deserting the conservative CDU and its Social Democratic coalition partners, the SPD. “That would have been clear propagandizing before the election, and I believe it would have unleashed a lively debate,” she added. “So the question remains: what are the rules from the analogue era and how do they apply in the digital era?”
The leader of the pro-business Free Democrats, Christian Lindner, tweeted: “I can hardly believe it... On the contrary, we need more open debate - on social media too.” Kramp-Karrenbauer’s victory last December in a tight race to succeed Merkel as leader of the CDU put the 56-year-old in pole position to become Germany’s next chancellor.
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