Factbox: Bavarian Soeder ready to run for German chancellor, if CDU supports him
BERLIN (Reuters) – The leader of Bavaria’s Christian Social Union (CSU), Markus Soeder, said on Sunday that he is willing to run as the conservative bloc’s candidate for German chancellor in a September election, according to senior conservative lawmakers. Germany’s conservative alliance of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party, the CSU,…