Outgoing leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (L) greets her sucessor North Rhine-Westphalia's State Premier Armin Laschet (C) with an elbow bump after his election on the second day of the party's 33rd congress held online because of the coronavirus pandemic, in Berlin on January 16, 2021. - Germany's conservative CDU party will elect a new leader on on January 16, 2021, in a key vote kicking off the race for Germany's top job as a deadly pandemic roils Europe's biggest economy. (Photo by Odd ANDERSEN / AFP)