Will a woman take over the CDU? JU encourages candidacy - and a "Union Council"

The JU chairman Tilman Kuban encourages women to run for the CDU party chairmanship and proposes a new body.

Berlin - Women in the Union: a prominent topic at the moment.

There is currently no candidate for the presidency.

Instead, names like Friedrich Merz, Norbert Röttgen, Jens Spahn, Ralph Brinkhaus or Carsten Linnemann are buzzing around.

A request has now come from the Junge Union.

“If women say they want more influence, women should run for office too.

Personally, I would think that's very good, ”said chairman Tilman Kuban of the

.

“The Junge Union showed us how to do it.

We now have three women on the federal executive board of the CDU.

That was because our young women dared and risked something. "

CDU: A woman at the top in the future?

In addition, Kuban spoke out in favor of a survey of the members in order to redefine the CDU chairmanship. “The Junge Union already requested a member survey at the federal party congress in 2019.” Again, the comparison with its own organization: “With our pitch last year, we showed that online voting is technically possible. You can then supplement this in the CDU with an urn election in the district offices. We don't need a long process for this either, we can decide quickly and still take the members with us. "

Kuban made the statements in the run-up to the Junge Union's “Germany Day”, which starts on Friday (October 15) and is supposed to last three days.

Prominent CDU politicians will appear at the lectern, including CDU boss Armin Laschet, Merz, Spahn, Brinkhaus.

Markus Söder (CSU) had canceled his participation - he is going to an appointment in Bavaria.

Kuban: "The question of how the CDU and CSU should be dealt with during the election campaign will have to be discussed again intensively."

There is still a lot to discuss and work through in the Union after the debacle in the Bundestag election. "The question of how the CDU and CSU should be dealt with during the election campaign will have to be discussed again intensively," said Kuban to the

. “From my point of view, the CDU and CSU cannot only be held together by the Junge Union, the Mittelstandvereinigung and the Bundestag parliamentary group. From time to time the party leaders talk to each other, that's not enough. We need a Union Council. ”This should form another bridge. “In such a council, functionaries from the municipalities, the federal government and the federal states could come together. The aim is to create a new sense of cohesion and to coordinate the content better. We urgently need that. "

A particularly large number of women would probably not sit on this council.

Most recently, for example, Federal Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner (CDU) criticized the fact that women are not visible enough across the board

Chairwoman of the Women's Union: "Reorganization of the CDU in Germany can only succeed with the women in the party"

"The reorganization of the CDU in Germany can only succeed in terms of content, personnel and structure with the women in the party," emphasized the chairwoman of the women's union, Annette Widmann-Mauz, to the

.

There should be an association and mandate holder conference in the near future in order to actively participate in the process.

Other parties such as the SPD and the Greens solve the problem through a double leadership with equal representation.

The chairwoman of the women in the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, Yvonne Magwas, also spoke out in

favor of such a path

to the

.

“A dual leadership definitely has advantages.” Party vice-president Silvia Breher expressed the dual leadership idea beforehand.