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Podcast: New Books in German Studies
Episode: Roman Deininger, "Markus Söder: The Shadow Chancellor" (Droemer Knauer, 2020)
Description: Next year, Germany goes to the polls. For the first time in 15 years, Angela Merkel will not be a candidate for chancellor.Although a leadership election is underway inside Merkelâs Christian Democratic Union, all eyes are on the CDUâs Bavarian sister party and its leader Markus Söder as her likely successor.A âshamelessâ self-publicist and political chameleon, Söder first rose to national prominence in 2015-17 as a conservative opponent of Merkelâs refugee policy. Yet, three years on, he has redefined himself as a Green-friendly moderate whose national popularity has soared in response...