The Berlin CDU chairman Kai Wegner calls for a comprehensive new beginning in his party at the federal level.
"After the devastating electoral defeat in the federal government, the CDU must be reorganized in terms of both personnel and content," Wegner said on Monday before committee meetings in Berlin.
"In doing so, the impression must never again arise that the moods and opinions of the party base are being ignored."
Berlin - What is needed is a debate about a “new, modern conservatism,” said Wegner.
"The CDU has to position itself more broadly again, with all three wings of the party, with young and old, with people from all parts of Germany, and we have to better reflect the diversity of our society."
In order to remain a people's party, the CDU must identify new issues and address them in a credible manner, but also consistently represent its core issues such as security and the rule of law.
And: “In the future, the CDU must also convey the pulse of the big cities even more strongly.
City and country do not have to be thought of against each other, but rather with one another. "
also read
Wegner wants to stay in state politics if the election is lost
Kai Wegner would like to become the governing mayor.
If that doesn't work, he'll definitely go to the House of Representatives, as the CDU top candidate assures.
Maybe there is more in it.
Wegner wants to stay in state politics if the election is lost
Berlin: Federal Council initiative for a new rent cap
Berlin takes a second attempt for the rent cap, which the Federal Constitutional Court had overturned in April.
The CDU thinks nothing of it.
Berlin: Federal Council initiative for a new rent cap
Zupke calls for easier recognition for SED victims
Unjust prison sentences, compulsory doping, nudging: hundreds of thousands experienced injustice during the GDR era.
Many still suffer from it today.
You must not be "second class citizens", says the new victim ombudsman.
Zupke calls for easier recognition for SED victims
The CDU / CSU fell to 24.1 percent in the federal election, while the SPD became the strongest force with 25.7 percent.
CDU boss Armin Laschet had announced that he wanted to submit a proposal to the party's top bodies this Monday for a new line-up.
He would like to moderate this process himself.
Laschet was his party's top candidate in the federal election.
dpa