The North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst is pushing the pace with the reorganization of the CDU leadership.
"My concern is that we come to decisions quickly so that there is clarity quickly," said Wüst on Tuesday when he arrived at the deliberations of the CDU top bodies in Berlin.
"The CDU was not founded for self-employment, but to take care of people's concerns."
Berlin - Saar Prime Minister Tobias Hans called for a party congress this year.
After the disaster of the CDU with a historic low in the federal elections, party leader Armin Laschet wanted to discuss how to proceed with the reorganization first with the presidium, the closest leadership of his party, and then with the larger board of directors. A district chairman's conference on Saturday voted by a large majority in favor of a member survey about the new party chairmanship, should there be several applicants. The party leadership should not ignore this requirement.
When asked whether he still believed in a team solution, Wüst said: “You have to see everything.
Today it's about the procedure.
And my concern is that things move forward quickly. ”In the CDU it was assumed that the former parliamentary group leader and economic expert Friedrich Merz and the foreign expert Norbert Röttgen have great ambitions for Laschet's successor.
Both were defeated in January in a vote against the then Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Health Minister Jens Spahn and Union parliamentary group leader Ralph Brinkhaus were also traded as possible candidates.
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Hans said a party conference was needed quickly.
“It is unacceptable that everything should be left to the coalitionists of the traffic light coalition on the pressing issues that are pending at the moment.
They need control.
That is why the party congress should also take place this year. ”This is ambitious, but feasible.
"Above all, it also presupposes that individual interests are now subordinate and that the party comes first." A team must be found that is ready to lead the party in a difficult situation.
He does not believe that it is possible in today's opposition, "that you pass the balls between the parliamentary group and the party leadership," warned Hans.
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