Berlin, Oct 31, 2020, SPA -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) will choose a new leader in mid-January, Reuters cited the party's general secretary as saying today, on Saturday after a Dec. 4 party congress was postponed due to the resurgent coronavirus pandemic. The decision on Monday to postpone the choice of a new leader had stoked internal divisions in the party, with one candidate - Friedrich Merz - accusing some in the CDU establishment of opposing him for the job. The party's three leadership candidates - Merz, Armin Laschet and Norbert Roettgen - have agreed to hold the congress in mid-January, CDU general secretary Paul Ziemiak announced on Twitter. --SPA 03:07 LOCAL TIME 00:07 GMT 0024 www.spa.gov.sa/w1439411