New Year’s reception of the district CSU in Gmund: “Democracy means enduring the plurality of opinions’ Carsten Linnemann, CDU general secretary, was guest of honor for the first time. 500 visitors came to the CSU New Year's reception at Gut Kaltenbrunn.

The CDU General Secretary called for a change in mentality in Germany. He received huge applause from the visitors for the sentence “No one in this country is forced to work, but then they cannot expect to be financed by others”