The candidate as leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Norbert Roettgen (L) congratulates winner North Rhine-Westphalia's State Premier Armin Laschet under the eyes of outgoing leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (2ndL) and CDU Secretary General Paul Diakonikon 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)