CDU: Bernd Althusmann wants to limit the term of office of CDU chancellors

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Lower Saxony's CDU boss Bernd Althusmann

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The general election will take place in five months - and that will end an era.

After four terms in office, Chancellor Angela Merkel will not run again.

According to the wishes of the Lower Saxony CDU chairman Bernd Althusmann, there could no longer be any longer terms of office in the future.

He wants to limit the term of office of CDU Chancellors to a maximum of ten years.

"As a party, we should decide to limit our chancellorship to two terms," ​​said Althusmann in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Monday.

The electoral terms should be increased from four to five years in order to then come to a "maximum ten years" term of office.

After the Merkel era, the CDU had to modernize itself in terms of content and personnel, said the economics minister and deputy prime minister in Hanover.

The Union had "perhaps become a little too self-confident, sometimes sluggish, due to Angela Merkel's long term in office."

Althusmann called the dispute between the CDU and CSU about Armin Laschet's candidacy for chancellor unnecessarily tough.

But this is also the result of neglected renewal.

Despite their bad experiences, the Union parties "still have no orderly procedure for determining a joint candidate for chancellor."

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