The Latest: Germany’s Merkel won’t run again in 2021

BERLIN (AP) — The Latest on politics in Germany after a state election in Hesse (all times local):
1:45 p.m.
Angela Merkel, who’s said she won’t run again for German chancellor in 2021, says she won’t try and influence who succeeds her.
Merkel told reporters Monday that she sees this as the opening of a new phase for her conservative Christian Democratic Union party. She says “this is a very good process that we haven’t had in 18 years.”
She confirmed re