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Internal survey: CDU is settling accounts with Laschet - and is taking a completely new path for succession

2021-11-01T07:57:33.587Z


Armin Laschet had to put up with a meeting with over 300 district chairmen. Now the CDU wants to open a "new chapter".


Armin Laschet had to put up with a meeting with over 300 district chairmen.

Now the CDU wants to open a "new chapter".

Berlin - It shouldn't have been an easy week for Armin Laschet. The defeat in the Bundestag election was devastating for the Union. The Union has had its worst result so far. The sister parties are on their way to opposition. After 16 years Federal Chancellery. The outgoing CDU leader, on the other hand, may in future only be a simple member of the Bundestag. He has already resigned his Prime Minister's office in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia - and his days as Chairman are numbered.

No easy weeks - and certainly not an easy day either: On Saturday (October 30th) Laschet met with more than 300 CDU district chairmen in Berlin to investigate the current situation in the Union.

And yet another result caused a stir: after the lost federal election, the CDU is heading for a member survey for the first time in its history to fill the party chairmanship. 

Internal survey: CDU is settling accounts with Laschet - and is taking a completely new path with successors

And there was an internal survey among the district chairmen on the reasons for the election defeat.

As the

Spiegel

reports, Laschet's mistake was named as the number one reason, with more than 80 percent.

In the eyes of the district bosses, he was the wrong candidate for the race to succeed Merkel.

The sister dispute between the CDU and the CSU was also apparently a determining topic.

According to the magazine, one of the district chairmen described the internal tensions as follows: They "peed each other's rucksacks," the

Spiegel

quoted the

person in question

as saying

.

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The outgoing CDU chairman Armin Laschet.

© Guido Kirchner / dpa

However, there was agreement regarding the member survey.

The approval for this procedure was "overwhelming" in order to clarify the successor to party leader Armin Laschet, said CDU general secretary Paul Ziemiak on Saturday.

Laschet successor: membership participation for the first time in the history of the CDU - several candidates

With membership participation, the party is opening a “new chapter”, said Ziemiak.

He will make suggestions to the presidium and the federal executive board for questioning the 400,000 CDU members.

According to participants, the decision was made by a show of hands at the meeting of district and district chairpersons in Berlin.

According to the party, 325 functionaries were present.

Friedrich Merz, who is currently the favorite for Laschet's successor among CDU members in surveys, called on the Presidium and the federal board of the

Welt am Sonntag

to follow “the clear vote on Tuesday”. Foreign policy expert Norbert Röttgen, who is also considered a possible applicant, made a similar statement to the newspaper. The deputy CDU chairman Jens Spahn, another potential candidate, also welcomed the decision. It is the "starting point of the realignment", said the outgoing health minister of the

Rheinische Post

.

In addition to Merz, Röttgen and Spahn, other possible applicants for the Laschet successor have been named in the party in recent weeks.

They include parliamentary group leader Ralph Brinkhaus and the chairman of the CDU / CSU SME Union, Carsten Linnemann.

So far there is no woman in the alleged field of applicants.

Nobody has officially declared a candidacy so far.

"That will all be cleared up gradually," said Spahn of the

Rheinische Post

about his ambitions.

Ziemiak assumed there were several applicants.

(aka with AFP)

List of rubric lists: © Guido Kirchner / dpa

Source: merkur

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