The CDU federal chairman Armin Laschet has warned his party not to talk about crisis scenarios after the Union's defeat in the federal election.
Talking about the “biggest crisis of the CDU since 1945” inspires “no voter at all to re-elect the CDU”, said Laschet on Saturday at the state party conference of the North Rhine-Westphalia CDU in Bielefeld.
Such statements are "complete nonsense".
Bielefeld - Rather, the CDU party donation affair in 2000 was in case of doubt a major crisis for the party.
"Leave cups in the cupboard, approach things realistically," said Laschet.
Previously, the Federal Minister of Health and CDU Vice-Vice President Jens Spahn said in the “Interview of the Week” on Deutschlandfunk that the CDU was in the greatest crisis in its history.
Spahn also took part as a delegate at the party conference of the NRW CDU.
The CDU suffered a historic defeat in the federal election at the end of September.
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SPD opposition leader Thomas Kutschaty has congratulated CDU State Transport Minister Hendrik Wüst on being nominated as Armin Laschet's successor in the office of Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia.
In the event of his election by the state parliament, he wanted to lead a "substantive dispute about the best ideas for our country" with Wüst, said the SPD party and parliamentary group leader in Düsseldorf on Tuesday.
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The NRW-CDU wanted to elect Laschet's state transport minister Hendrik Wüst (46) as the new state party leader in Bielefeld.
The change in personnel becomes necessary after Laschet, who ran as the Union's candidate for chancellor, had already made a decision before the federal election not to remain in his offices in North Rhine-Westphalia even if he failed.
Wüst is expected to be elected as the new Prime Minister in the state parliament next Wednesday.
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