Eva von Angern and the Road Ahead

There is a simple trick for remembering Eva von Angern's name: remember her first name, which also supplies the initials for the rest. E.v.A. The article suggests that the federal CDU should remember both the trick and the politician.

Von Angern, 49, is a mother of three and a lawyer. She has spent roughly half her life representing the Left in Saxony-Anhalt's state parliament and is now the party's lead candidate.

After the election, the question of whether the state can form a government may depend on her. The article focuses on the possibility that the Left could become indispensable to a CDU-led government and asks what conditions the party would set for such support against an AfD alternative.