Equality: Laschet wants to occupy the future cabinet equally

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CDU party leader Armin Laschet (archive image)

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Women make up half of the population - but are not equally divided among cabinet posts.

CDU party leader Armin Laschet therefore wants to fill half of the cabinet positions with women.

"Parity in the next federal cabinet - that is my goal," said Laschet at an event organized by the weekly newspaper "Die Zeit".

The prerequisite: an election victory for his party in the federal elections.

However, the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister has not yet stated whether he will be campaigning for Chancellor.

Another candidate in the Union is CSU boss Markus Söder.

The CDU is obliged to do its part here

The CDU is obliged to do its part in terms of equality, said Laschet.

He thinks it is fundamentally important that men also make feminism an issue and fight for "equality between men and women, for parity and for women in powerful positions."

The proportion of women in the Bundestag fell to a 20-year low after the 2017 election: only 31 percent of the MPs in this legislative period are women.

A parity law intended to ensure more gender equality in parliaments was rejected in Thuringia last year.

The constitutional court in Brandenburg has also declared a regulation on gender-equitable lists of parties to be unlawful.

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