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CDU wants to include district chairmen in the search for a new party leadership

2021-10-11T12:27:44.988Z


Will the basic decision come? After the election failure, the CDU is wrestling with a concept for its realignment. According to SPIEGEL information, there is now a timetable for the election of Laschet's successor.


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CDU chief Armin Laschet

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The federal board of the CDU is planning a meeting of the district chairmen after the disaster in the federal election.

SPIEGEL learned this from participants.

After the meeting, the federal executive board will again decide how the base is to be involved.

A special party congress is then planned to reorganize the content and personnel.

The meeting with the CDU district chairmen is therefore planned for October 30th.

The dpa news agency had previously reported on it.

The maneuver should help to realign the party after the election defeat.

Party leader Armin Laschet had announced that he wanted to pave the way for a renewal and to moderate.

In the CDU, voices were then loud not to leave the election of a new leadership to a party congress, as before - but to involve the entire party base.

The federal executive board therefore met in the morning to deliberate on the repositioning of the party in terms of personnel and content after the election defeat.

After a meeting of the board of directors, CDU General Secretary Paul Ziemiak confirmed the planned meeting of the district chairmen.

It is about starting a renewal process now.

Laschet will be available as a moderator "for this important and intensive time".

The board unanimously decided to re-elect the entire federal board at the next federal party conference.

When exactly the party congress will meet and how the members should have a say, will be decided immediately after the meeting of the district chairmen.

The federal executive has scheduled a meeting for November 2nd.

The entire federal board is completely re-elected at the federal party conference.

That was decided unanimously today.

The CDU / CSU fell to 24.1 percent in the federal election, while the SPD became the strongest force with 25.7 percent.

The two ministers Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and Peter Altmaier announced last weekend that they would forego their respective Bundestag mandates and thus make room for younger members of parliament.

Both justified this with a generation change that should come in the party now.

After the election defeat, several politicians in the Union also called for the new chairman to be determined by the grassroots.

They include a group of younger politicians around Philipp Amthor.

Other members of the party have positioned themselves against a membership decision on this issue.

Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble is one of them.

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Source: spiegel

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