Federal Vice Strobl: Renew staff and basic program

The deputy CDU federal chairman Thomas Strobl warns his party against only exchanging heads after the historically weak performance in the federal election. "We must not stop at the personnel renewal, but also have to add content," he told the "Stuttgarter Zeitung" and the "Stuttgarter Nachrichten". The Baden-Württemberg Minister of the Interior added:

Stuttgart - "Our result shows that many voters no longer knew how the values ​​of the CDU, which we still stand behind, translate into the new era." revive.

All members should then be involved in the preparation and adoption, Strobl continued.

The current basic program dates from 2007. Under party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, a new program was tackled in 2018, also on the initiative of the Southwest CDU, but it was no longer passed.

The Union had historically done poorly in the election and landed with 24.1 percent of the vote.

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