Berlin's CDU chairman Kai Wegner has defended his election campaign against criticism from his own party.
"We had such a concrete election program like never before," he said on Wednesday at a conference of the Berlin CDU members.
The CDU state chairman, who ran as the top candidate in the House of Representatives election, had to face numerous critical questions and comments.
Berlin - There was talk of “sleeping car election campaigns” and “lousy election campaigns”.
One member criticized that superficiality had become the CDU's undoing.
In particular, the CDU did not attack the SPD clearly enough.
Wegner admitted that it had been difficult to stand up to the strategy of the SPD top candidate Franziska Giffey, because she had repeatedly copied the CDU program: “Ms. Giffey actually felt somehow taking over every point.
We talked about a restart, shortly afterwards the SPD launched a restart program, ”said Wegner.
"For years I have been calling for a round table for affordable living, all of a sudden the SPD is calling for it."
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The new CDU parliamentary group in the Berlin House of Representatives is led by party leader and top candidate Kai Wegner.
For the 49-year-old, 24 of the 29 MPs present voted on Thursday with one vote against and four abstentions, according to a spokesman.
This corresponds to an approval rate of 82.8 percent.
The CDU, which does not include abstentions, spoke of around 96 percent approval.
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It was the same with the demand for administrative modernization and reintroduction of the preschool.
He took off his shoes when Giffey spoke out in favor of video surveillance in crime-prone locations.
"You can't think of much anymore."
According to the official final result, the CDU came to 18.0 percent in the House of Representatives election.
That is only slightly above the worst value of the party in Berlin in 2016 (17.6 percent).
Shortly after the election, Wegner described the result as a “strong result”.
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