Who will be at the top of the CDU in the future should decide at a special party conference on April 25th. So far, however, there is only one official candidate.
- The CDU government crisis is omnipresent even weeks after the political earthquake in Thuringia.
- A special party conference is to clarify who will be Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer's successor.
- However, the hope of a “team solution” on this issue is waning - a battle candidate appears to be emerging .
Berlin - After the political earthquake in the Thuringian prime minister election, the federal CDU is still in crisis. Party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer announced her resignation in early February. So far, it is still completely open who will become her successor.
CDU crisis: Armin Laschet, Friedrich Merz and Jens Spahn are favorites for the CDU executive chair
The favorites for her successor are NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet , Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn and the former chairman of the CDU parliamentary group Friedrich Merz . Foreign politician Norbert Röttgen is the only one who has officially announced his candidacy so far. Although the selection of actually fixed candidates has so far been extremely limited, the CDU informed on Monday morning that a special party conference is planned for April 25 . Then it should be decided who will be the new party leader.
Meanwhile, the CDU leadership is losing hope for an amicable “team solution” for the new election of the party leader in Berlin. Such a solution with previous agreements between the possible candidates, NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet, ex-Union parliamentary leader Friedrich Merz and Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn would be very difficult, it said on Monday in the party on the sidelines of the board meeting in Berlin. There had been urgent appeals for such a solution in the previous meeting of the party presidium . The only official candidate for the CDU chairmanship, Norbert Röttgen, is said to have played no role in these appeals.
The outgoing chairman AKK and Hamburg's CDU top candidate Marcus Weinberg want to inform about the results of today's board meeting in a press conference in the early Monday afternoon.
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- CDU Germany (@CDU) February 24, 2020CDU crisis: could a candidate for a fight possibly split the party?
In large parts of the CDU leadership there is concern that the split in the party could no longer be overcome if the candidate for a fight again. In 2018, Kramp-Karrenbauer was only very narrowly able to prevail against Merz at a party convention. As a result, she also had to struggle that parts of his supporters were not satisfied with the decision.
But it is not only the CDU chairmanship at federal level that will soon have to be replaced; Thuringia's state chairman Mike Mohring also announced his resignation. The reason, however, puzzles.
