party conference after months of criticism party to an exit caraballo called her critics telling them in short to back me off me so for now at least it seems that the issue of the party leadership has been removed from the table but with germany set to head to the polls once again in a less into years' time a.k.k. now has a what could happen to prove that she's still a worthy candidate in the meantime competition is still lining up within the seating here including one of her loudest critics matt despite matt striking a somewhat more conciliatory tone than usual today he still likely to throw his hat into the ring in a bid to become successor as the next german chancellor. it's a 1000 year old rule that is coming under increasing scrutiny this ships across the world are discussing whether the catholic church should relax its requirement for priests to live a life of celibacy the debate has been welcomed here in germany which is struggling with a chronic shortage of priests but the hope that allowing them to get married will have families and families pardon me or make men consider a l

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delegates that she would resign if she did not get their full backing well that a standing ovation come caraballo took over from chancellor angela merkel as c.d.u. leader last year but the party's popularity has continued to slide under her leadership. she went all the way and took on the challenge after several attacks in the weeks to. to the c.d.u. sponte conference and a great. post the big question to her party colleagues and leipsic. many of them i know if you feel that the road i want to go down is not the road you want to follow then let us talk about that today and let those and it today here and now today. how did the 1000 delegates react with this 7 minute standing ovation continuing 190 minute speech the party leader passionately our the policy measures she wants to pursue in the future. isn't enough to be the repair service of the republican we need to become the workshop of the future again that's our goal and that's what we want to do one time in my mind one of those in the audience was fleet ice melts revival that has attacked a k.-k. several times in recent weeks this time he seem

caraballo there brushing aside criticism from greenpeace well it's not been an easy year for the c.d.u. leader on one hand she's having to put her stamp on a party long dominated by her previous s.-a angela merkel but kind of was a controversial choice from the start and she remains search today. a year ago and a great crime can buy embraced her political godmother angela merkel after succeeding her as the leader of the conservative c.d.u. party but the man she narrowly defeated for the job hasn't given up on his chances of one day succeeding angela merkel. math's left politics more than a decade ago after losing an internal power struggle to machall now with the end of the mcaleer insight he's trying to make a comeback. and a great crime can be hours climb to the top of the party was soon followed by a rapid descent in the opinion polls within less than a year her approval ratings have more than half of it. following the cd use poor performance in regional elections in eastern germany in september the leader of the party's youth organization confronted crime current with the leadershi