For Hendrik Wüst, the leap to the top of the government is going very smoothly.
In the first round he was elected as the new Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Düsseldorf - The CDU politician Hendrik Wüst is the new Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia.
The previous state transport minister was elected to succeed Armin Laschet in a special session of the state parliament in the first ballot with 103 votes in favor.
Wüst exceeded the necessary majority of 100 votes in the secret ballot.
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The North Rhine-Westphalian Transport Minister Hendrik Wüst has called on the CDU to develop more of its own profile.
"We have to trust ourselves again to not only follow the zeitgeist, but also to shape it," said Wüst on Saturday at the state delegate meeting of the SME and Economic Union of North Rhine-Westphalia in Rheine.
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The vote was eagerly awaited, as the CDU / FDP coalition only has a majority in the NRW state parliament.
The state parliament has a total of 199 members.
197 took part in the election, there were three abstentions and one vote was invalid, as the President of the State Parliament André Kuper reported.
90 MPs voted no.
Wüst was sworn in immediately after his election in the state parliament.
The change at the top of the government takes place almost seven months before the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Laschet, the Union's candidate for chancellor in the federal elections, has been a member of the Bundestag since Tuesday.
The 60-year-old had ruled out a return to NRW - regardless of the outcome of the federal election.
On Saturday, Wüst had already been elected as the new CDU state chairman at a party conference.
He succeeds Laschet in this position as well.
Before the vote, Laschet was officially adopted in the state parliament.
According to the state constitution, a member of the NRW state government cannot be a member of the Bundestag at the same time.
As a member of the state parliament, Laschet was still able to vote for his successor, Wüst.
The CDU federal chairman will probably only be a member of the state parliament and the federal parliament for a short time.
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