Another Niedersächsin: The CDU Federal Party Congress in Leipzig has chosen Silvia Breher as the new vice-chairman of the Christian Democrats. The member of the Bundestag and head of the state association Oldenburg received 701 votes out of the 1001 delegates on Friday, which corresponds to 82 percent according to the conference.
The 46-year-old will succeed Ursula von der Leyen, who will become the President of the European Commission and therefore her party office. Breher is now one of a total of five representatives of the chairman Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, including the second wife in addition to Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner.
After the unwritten regional proportionality, it was up to the Lower Saxony CDU to set up a successor to the von der Leyen, also from there. Breher is a lawyer, mother of three children and has been sitting in the Bundestag for two years. Among other things, she takes care of agriculture and rural areas.