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Nadine Schön, previous vice-chairman of the Union parliamentary group in the Bundestag: "We have had too few women in parliament and party for years"
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It suffered a historic defeat in the federal election - now the CDU wants to reposition itself.
The female members want to play a decisive role in this: They insist on more power and influence.
"We have had too few women in parliament and party for years," said the previous vice-chairman of the Union parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Nadine Schön (CDU), of the "Rheinische Post". And: "We have to become more." The gender of the future chairman is of secondary importance. Someone is needed "who will bring the party together and make it broader," said Schön. Nevertheless, the party had female leaders for a long time. "That was good for the party."
The chairwoman of the Women's Union, Annette Widmann-Mauz, told the editorial network Germany: "The repositioning of the CDU in Germany can only succeed in terms of content, personnel and structure with the women in the party." Association and elected representatives conference.
This will take place soon.
All female members of the CDU belong to the Women's Union.
They make up around 155,000 of the approximately 400,000 members.
Union sinks to a record high in the survey
The CDU / CSU and its candidate for Chancellor Armin Laschet fell to 24.1 percent in the federal election, while the SPD became the strongest force with 25.7 percent. And the trend continues. According to a recent Insa survey, the Union has now slipped below the 20 percent mark. In the “Sunday trend” of the opinion research institute for the “Bild” newspaper, the CDU and CSU lose one and a half percentage points compared to the previous week and come to 19.5 percent. This is the lowest value ever measured by the Insa opinion trend for the Union.
The CDU wants to re-elect the entire federal executive committee at a special party conference.
This was decided unanimously, said CDU General Secretary Paul Ziemiak on Monday after deliberations of the top committees in Berlin.
In the ARD “Tagesthemen”, Ziemiak said, when asked whether Laschet would not remain party leader under any circumstances: “That's how it is.”
At the moment he does not see that there are opportunities for Jamaica, i.e. a coalition of the Union, Greens and FDP, said Ziemiak.
But if the Greens and the FDP want to hold talks, Laschet is the contact person for the CDU.
"How we would then equip a federal government, then we would discuss together as CDU and CSU."
Mohring compares his party with a "pile of chickens"
CDU federal board member Mike Mohring spoke out in favor of a package solution for the new CDU top.
He said to “Bild”: “It will be exciting, because it is about the question of the party chairman, the general secretary and the parliamentary group chairman - I can only recommend my party to look at these packages as a whole in order to achieve peace.
Otherwise we'll talk about the party chairmanship in January and talk about the parliamentary group chairmanship in March. "
Regarding the election failure, Mohring said: "What we saw in the last few weeks after the election was like a pile of chickens".
There was no longer any order.
And that is "the most dangerous thing for a party that claims to be a people's party: to be perceived as leaderless."
So far, only names of men have been discussed as possible candidates for Laschet's successor.
Possible applicants for the top of the CDU are economic politician Friedrich Merz, Minister of Health Jens Spahn, foreign politician Norbert Röttgen, parliamentary group leader Ralph Brinkhaus and economic politician Carsten Linnemann.
In the CDU it was recently disputed how big the role the party base should play in the upcoming generation change.
aar / dpa / AFP
