The Southwest CDU has also been seething since the historic bankruptcy in the federal elections.
The call for staff renewal also affects the regional association.
Country chief Strobl receives backing from the cabinet.
Stuttgart - Just under three and a half weeks before the Southwest CDU party convention, two Union ministers campaigned for the re-election of state chairman Thomas Strobl. After Agriculture Minister Peter Hauk, Economics Minister Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut also spoke out in favor of the 61-year-old Vice Prime Minister. “In times of great dynamism and uncertainty, it is important to ensure political continuity in the country and stability in the governing coalition. This is what our state chairman and deputy prime minister Thomas Strobl stands for, ”said Hoffmeister-Kraut about her ministry in Stuttgart on Wednesday. Because of the heavy losses in the state and federal elections, there are also demands in the Southwest CDU for a renewal at the head of the state party.
It is expected that Strobl will take office again as state chairman. The lawyer from Heilbronn has been at the head of the second largest regional association of the CDU for ten years and is also federal vice-president. He has not yet officially declared himself. Whether someone will compete against him is still open. On Wednesday evening, the presidium and board wanted to talk again about the processing of the federal election. A commission is to be set up.
Hoffmeister-Kraut, who is also a member of the state executive, explained: “It is right to take the criticism of the grassroots and the expressed desire for changes seriously.
We have already successfully embarked on this path with personnel renewals in the party, parliamentary group and state government and we will continue to pursue it. ”The head of department was referring to the new parliamentary group leader Manuel Hagel (33), the new general secretary Isabell Huber (34) and two new CDUs -Ministers Marion Gentges (Justice) and Nicole Razavi (Housing).
Hoffmeister-Kraut went on to say: "It is just as important now that our state CDU appears unanimously and does constructive work for Baden-Württemberg in the government on the basis of the coalition agreement."
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Agriculture Minister Hauk said that renewal was necessary in the CDU, but participation in the government in Baden-Württemberg was extremely important for the CDU, which will now probably have to join the opposition in the federal government. Hauk announced that he wanted to put the CDU district chair in North Baden in younger hands. He confirmed that he had proposed Moritz Oppelt, member of the Bundestag, as his successor for the district chairmanship in North Baden. The change is to take place at the district party conference of the CDU North Baden on October 29th.
After the federal election there is “a need for a realignment” in the district, said the 60-year-old Hauk of the dpa. In North Baden alone three direct mandates were lost - in Karlsruhe, Mannheim and Heidelberg. It is right that someone with weight, Oppelt, represents North Baden in the Bundestag. The 32-year-old from the Rhein-Neckar constituency has been Hauk's deputy in the district for two years and has now moved into the Bundestag for the first time.
The four powerful CDU district chairmen also sit on the presidium of the state party.
In addition to Hauk, there are MEPs Andreas Schwab for South Baden and Steffen Bilger for North Württemberg and Thomas Bareiß for Württemberg-Hohenzollern, both of whom are in the Bundestag.
Oppelt also spoke out in favor of Strobl remaining CDU country chief.
"We have a huge interest in the Southwest CDU remaining stable," said Oppelt of the dpa.
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