The parliamentary group chairman of the CDU and CSU in the Bundestag calls on the Union to unite after the defeat in the Bundestag election.
"We have to change how we work together," said Ralph Brinkhaus at the Junge Union's Germany Day on Sunday in Münster.
Loyalty and solidarity must be the focus again.
Brinkhaus referred to the SPD as a positive example in the election campaign, which stood like a bloc.
Münster - "After an event like the one on September 26th, you can't just ignore normality and carry on", said the politician from the Gütersloh district.
He described the historically worst result in a federal election as "devastating".
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Brinkhaus sharply attacked party friends with reference to indiscretions from internal meetings.
“It's a question of attitude.
Internal matters must remain internal, ”said the group chairman.
Those who do not have the attitude that the political opponent is not in their own party cannot go with them on the way back to the Chancellery.
In addition to economic expert Friedrich Merz, health minister Jens Spahn, foreign politician Norbert Röttgen and economic politician Carsten Linnemann, Brinkhaus is considered a possible candidate for the CDU leadership and thus as the successor to party leader Armin Laschet.
dpa
