Who is Markus Söder, Bavaria’s premier?
CSU chairman Markus Söder was long seen as a strong contender to replace Angela Merkel as a conservative chancellor. But after a power struggle with CDU head Armin Laschet, he stepped aside. Markus Söder heads the Christian Social Union Bavarian State Premier Markus Söder bowed out of the contest to be the conservative CDU/CSU bloc’s…