In that sense, he recalled that the last honorary president was Helmut Kohl, Merkel’s former mentor, who left office in 2000.
Laschet, who led the CDU to its worst electoral results in the September elections, will soon leave the leadership of the formation.
His successor is expected to take office after a virtual ceremony that will take place tomorrow.
Merkel did not attend the last electoral process and instead announced her withdrawal from the German political scene after 16 years at the helm of Europe’s largest economy.
The former foreign minister had already rejected, last week, a position in the UN offered by the secretary general of the organization, Antonio Guterrez.
Merkel, 67, thanked Guterres for the job but did not accept it, her office said, without elaborating.
German media reported that Merkel had been offered the chairmanship of a high-level advisory body on global public goods by the UN secretary-general, one of the secretary-general’s flagship reform projects.
However, German politics preferred to maintain the low profile it has acquired since handing over the German chancellery to Olaf Scholz of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
According to Der Spiegel magazine, Merkel is working on a memoir, but little else is known about the former chancellor’s life in retirement.
Source From: Ambito
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