Germany and its CDU without Kohl and Merkel: WI Helmut Kohl died in summer of 1989?

I already toyed with that question in Thande's thread about FPTP in West Germany. You see, before the Berlin Wall fell and Kohl cashed politically on the reunification of Germany, becoming the "eternal chancellor" in the end, he barely escaped his demontage as party chairman by his own underlings and his party generally did bad in the surveys and he was very much expected to be voted out of government in the upcoming elections.

Helmut Kohl destroyed many high-profile political careers. And Angela Merkel from the East quickly became his political poster-child who'd eventually destroy many other high-profile political careers on her own. And she has a very good chance to eventually outshine her mentor. So let's for a moment assume that the attempted political death gets real by biological means, whatever it could be.

  1. What changes about the reunification?
  2. What changes about the CDU? Especially, who'd reform the CDU enough to be eligible for people who('d) consider(ed) them synonymous with barefoot and pregnant?
  3. Who will be in charge of the federal governments from then until now?
 
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