The CDU delegates have elected a new chairman of the party.
Armin Laschet is the winner and prevailed against Friedrich Merz in the runoff election.
One thing is certain: Armin Laschet is the new chairman of the CDU.
Friedrich Merz was defeated in the runoff election.
An official
result
is only expected after the postal votes have been counted on January 22nd
(see first report)
.
This news ticker is updated regularly.
Update from January 16, 11.41 a.m.: Armin Laschet
is happy.
He is the new
CDU chairman
.
But no sooner has the choice been made than the next question arises: And who will now be the candidate for chancellor?
Laschet recently announced that he would like to speak “openly” with CSU boss Markus Söder about it.
Söder has recently had high popularity ratings again and again.
It remains to be seen whether Laschet can prevail.
Update from January 16, 11:33 a.m.:
The digital decision has been made.
Armin Laschet won.
The defeated Friedrich Merz and Norbert Röttgen congratulate Laschet.
Now a postal vote has to secure the result legally.
Armin Laschet is the new CDU chairman - tight decision in the runoff election
Update from January 16, 11:24 a.m.:
The decision has been made:
Armin Laschet
is the new CDU chairman.
He wins with 521 votes, 991 votes were cast.
Update from January 16, 11:21 a.m.:
It's a very thin race, as it turned out after the first ballot.
Friedrich Merz
leads by just five votes ahead of
Armin Laschet
.
Norbert Röttgen is eliminated and is now no longer in the second ballot.
The big question: How will the 224 Röttgen voters decide?
The next vote is in progress.
There will be a result in a moment.
Result of the CDU party congress: wafer-thin race - run-off vote necessary
Update from January 16, 11.11 a.m.:
The result of the first ballot is available.
952 delegates cast their votes.
Friedrich Merz received 385 votes, Armin Laschet 380 votes and Norbert Röttgen 224. A runoff between Merz and Laschet followed.
Update from January 16, 11:05 a.m.:
The first ballot of the
CDU party congress
is over, the first result of the digital vote should be available soon.
Update from January 16, 9:12 a.m.:
The new
CDU chairman should be
determined
this Saturday afternoon
.
He then has to be officially elected by postal vote
(see initial registration)
.
First, according to the program,
Armin Laschet will
speak in the morning
, then
Friedrich Merz
, and finally
Norbert Röttgen
.
Who will make the race in the end is still completely open.
There was no clear mood among the delegates until the end.
Update from January 15, 2:27 p.m.:
The
CDU
has been waiting for a
long
time.
On Friday evening 18 o'clock, it should start with the
CDU party *
.
Then the delegates, the CDU party leadership, interested parties and media representatives meet online and follow the action.
Speeches, votes, honors: everything is digital.
The new
chairman
should already be determined on Saturday
.
So that the result is legally secure, there will also be a postal vote
(see initial report)
.
The question is conceivable: Isn't there a risk that
delegates will
vote differently in the case of a narrow result in the postal vote?
In order to rule out this from the outset, the
candidates have
already announced that they will no longer be available for the postal ballot if they have lost the digital vote.
CDU party congress: The official result should be available on January 22nd
First report from January 10, 11:23 a.m .:
Berlin - Not only the CDU will be eagerly awaiting the result: On January
15 and 16,
1001 delegates will meet at
the CDU's
first
digital party conference
.
The most sensational item on the program is likely to be the election of the new chairman.
In the past few weeks, the three most promising candidates presented themselves several times to their party friends and the grassroots.
Friedrich Merz
stands for a conservative short of the party.
After losing to Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, he is running for the office of CDU chairman for the second time.
He sat in the Bundestag until 2009, then switched to business for a longer period of time.
Armin Laschet
is currently Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia.
He has already sat in the Bundestag and the European Parliament.
Most recently, he advocated wanting to continue Angela Merkel's policy.
Jens Spahn * is on the team with him.
Norbert Röttgen
says of himself that he is “not a warehouse” but stands for everyone.
He has been in the Bundestag since 1994 and was Environment Minister under Merkel until 2012.
As chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, he cares a lot about foreign policy.
Everyone wants to convince with his concept, because from the position as
chairman
a candidate for chancellor for the Union could possibly arise.
However, this is
coordinated
beforehand with the CSU and its boss
Markus Söder
.
Armin Laschet and the Bavarian Prime Minister had already grooved as a possible team at the New Year's reception of the CDU from NRW *.
Election of the new CDU chairman: when will there be a result?
The
election itself will take place
next Saturday
(January 16)
after all three applicants have once again created the mood for themselves - as far as this is possible with a digital format.
According to the party program, a
result
should then be
announced.
If nobody
gets
an absolute majority of
the votes
in the first round
- i.e. nobody gets over 50 percent of all possible votes - there will be a
runoff
between the first and second place.
Next week for # cdupt21 1001 delegates will come together digitally and # because of tomorrow.
You choose a leadership with which we will make the right decisions this year so that Germany can get out of the crisis well.
#cduvorsitz
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- Germany's CDU (@CDU) January 8, 2021
The fact that
digital voting and decisions are made
at the
CDU party conference
is a novelty in German party history.
In order for the election result to be binding and legally secure, there is then a written final vote by postal vote.
The count will take place on Friday,
January 22nd
and the
results will be
announced
on the same day
.
In addition to the new chairman, five deputy chairmen and the members of the Presidium and the Federal Executive Committee will be newly elected.
In addition, a vote is taken on the federal treasurer and the representative.
CDU party congress: program around the election of the chairman and the result
The
program of the party congress
extends over two days.
According to the schedule, the event will run on Friday, January 15th from 6pm to 9pm, and on Saturday, January 16th from 9.30am to 3pm.
Speeches and greetings from the previous CDU leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Chancellor Angela Merkel *, General Secretary Paul Ziemiak, CSU boss Söder and Donald Tusk, President of the European People's Party, are planned for Friday.
After the speeches of the
three candidates for the presidency
and the vote on Saturday, greetings from EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and the opposition leader of Belarus, Svetlana Tichanowskaja, are to follow.
The final word should be given by the
new chairman of the CDU *
.
In the polls *,
Friedrich Merz
is currently
ahead, but
Armin Laschet
and
Norbert Röttgen
follow closely behind
.
(cibo) * Merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital network.
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