The Union is getting in the mood for opposition work at the Germany Day of Party's Youth in Münster.
Despite the election disaster, belligerent tones can also be heard.
How will Union faction leader Brinkhaus analyze the situation?
Münster - Three weeks after the election disaster for the Union in the federal election, the Junge Union is continuing its Germany Day on Sunday for a new beginning. Union faction leader Ralph Brinkhaus (CDU) is to speak at the meeting (9:30 a.m.) of the youngsters in the party in Münster. In addition to the economic expert Friedrich Merz, health minister Jens Spahn, foreign politician Norbert Röttgen and economic politician Carsten Linnemann, he is a possible candidate for the CDU leadership and thus as the successor to party leader Armin Laschet.
Union Chancellor candidate Laschet took sole responsibility for the historically poor performance of the Union with only 24.1 percent in Münster on Saturday. At the same time he had attuned to a role in the opposition. In the opposition, it is particularly important to "appear together and unanimously" and "wisely and intelligently put your finger in the wound" if a future government makes mistakes. CDU party vice Spahn announced that the Union would be a constructive opposition. "It was a shitty election result and so is the situation." But he was also combative: "The CDU is not finished."
CSU General Secretary Markus Blume swore the Union to a strong opposition work. “We now have to acknowledge the reality: we are opposition. But we are a strong opposition. ”The leaders of the SPD, Greens and FDP had previously presented a joint paper on the outcome of their exploratory talks in Berlin and advocated coalition negotiations.
Laschet said it had to go against the political opponent again and "not against each other in the Union family". The delegates paid him respect for his self-critical analysis. JU boss Tilman Kuban spoke of “brutal honesty” and “true greatness”. The deputy CSU party chairman Manfred Weber warned in the "Bild am Sonntag" that the "laschet bashing" must come to an end. “The top candidate always bears great responsibility for an election result. As a Union, we would make a big mistake if we blame everything on Armin Laschet, ”said Weber, who recently described Laschet's candidacy as a“ millstone around his neck ”.
CSU boss Markus Söder, on the other hand, had canceled at short notice, which many delegates criticized in their speeches.
Söder had been defeated in the internal struggle for the candidacy for chancellor and had repeatedly poked at Laschet.
In the “Welt am Sonntag”, Söder now promoted a new cooperation between the two sister parties.
"In terms of style and content, we should move closer together again instead of talking publicly about each other."
Spahn called for team spirit instead of "running shows".
“It's not about Armin, Friedrich, Jens, Ralph or whoever,” he called to great applause in the hall.
"The Union is bigger than any of us." Laschet rejected Merz 'presentation, who had described the Union on Friday at the beginning of the JU conference as a "serious restructuring case at risk of insolvency".
Laschet's designated successor for his offices as prime minister of North Rhine-Westphalia and state party leader, Hendrik Wüst, appealed: “We lost the federal election, yes.
And as things stand, we have also lost government participation, yes.
But we must not also lose our attitude, our behavior and our self-respect. ”The party must recapture the political center, the transport minister made clear.
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