Armin Laschet, the premier of North-Rhine Westphalia, Germany's most populous state, was elected to be the new leader the country's governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party on Saturday (16 January).
He is seen as a political heir to Angela Merkel, who will end her 16-year tenure as Germany's chancellor after the general election in September.
It remains to be seen if Laschet will be the CDU's candidate for the chancellery, but some of his foreign policy views have raised...
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