Spectacular CDU news on Tuesday morning: Foreign expert Norbert Röttgen has registered his candidacy for the CDU chairmanship. Live ticker for the Röttgen declaration.
- After the election debacle in Thuringia, party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer declared that she would not be the candidate for chancellor of the Union.
- This sparked a power struggle within the CDU for its successor.
- Surprisingly, Norbert Röttgen is now also reporting.
10:38: The announcement by Norbert Röttgen to run for the CDU chairmanship comes as a surprise on Tuesday morning. And at a time when the party is currently in the process of ensuring an unobtrusive solution with little power struggle, shortly before the outgoing party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer on Tuesday first with Merz and on Wednesday also with Laschet and Spahn over their Wanted to speak ambitions. The CDU party circles said that it was assumed that, like the other candidates, there would also be an appointment by Kramp-Karrenbauer with Röttgen in the next few days.
9.50 a.m .: Norbert Röttgen wants to publicly comment on his surprising candidacy for the party chair at 11 a.m. in a press conference. A day earlier, the Bavarian sister party CSU had made it clear that the CDU should deal with its new chairman, but could not choose the new candidate for chancellor at the same time. Prime Minister Markus Söder made it clear that the decision to stand for the Union was “not without the CSU” and suggested that the search for the candidate for chancellor be suspended for a few more months. Maybe that's why Röttgen dared to take cover.
Friedrich Merz, North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Armin Laschet *, Health Minister Jens Spahn and Söder are currently considered possible successors to CDU leader * Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer.
First announcement February 18, 2020: The CDU foreign expert Norbert Röttgen (54) has registered his candidacy for the CDU chairmanship . The Düsseldorf Rheinische Post reports this, referring to a letter from Röttgen to party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer * .
Röttgen argues that he is firmly convinced that it is about much more than the party presidency and certainly not about the interests of individuals. "The situation is so serious that it is about the future of the CDU and what it means for the stability of Germany," said Röttgen. He wanted to bring this into the CDU in an open process .
Röttgen was Federal Minister for the Environment from 2009 to 2012 and prevailed against Armin Laschet in a member survey in 2010 about the NRW state presidency . He lost the state elections in 2012, whereupon Chancellor Angela Merkel released him from the cabinet. As chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bundestag, he was then able to profile himself internationally.
This surprising message is received by citizens in different ways. For example, a user writes sarcastically on Twitter: "First Merz, then Röttgen - this is the new season of The Walking Dead"
First Merz, now # Röttgen, is this the new season of The Walking Dead?
I anticipate a resurrection and candidature of Kohl at any time.
* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
