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New CDU chairmanship: Merz can do it - if he succeeds

2021-11-15T17:34:40.763Z


Friedrich Merz is running for the CDU chairmanship. A lot of malice hits him. But one should wait and see. A comment.


Friedrich Merz is running for the CDU chairmanship.

A lot of malice hits him.

But one should wait and see.

A comment.

Munich - Friedrich Merz, the forever unfinished in German politics, does it again.

And there is much to suggest that the Sauerlander will make the leap to the top of the CDU in the third attempt.

Because this time, the party establishment no longer decides who, as the tenth chairman, is allowed to sit on the chair of Adenauer, Kohl and Merkel.

But the basis.

That base that has persuaded the CDU leadership for 15 years that it is too right to appoint a boss with a prospect of electoral success.

A CDU leadership that does not trust its 600,000 members, incapacitates them so that the man does not become chairman who stands for their convictions like no other - that was and is an imposition.

The result: two brilliantly failed bosses - Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and Armin Laschet - and only 19 percent of the vote.

It is also logical: How can a basis for your candidate campaign wholeheartedly if you only give him lukewarm support?

CDU crisis: Merz can be a winner if he creates a representative team

It's true: Merz, who has just turned 66, is confronted with malice and aversions, especially in the left-wing camp. But why is that so? Because he stands out from the monotony. Unlike Merkel, Merz has never tried to be compliant, to hide his CDU and what has been its brand essence for 75 years in order to be liked by everyone. He stands for competition, for a social market economy, for secure borders, against equalization in terms of identity and politics, against the reputation of the muezzin, for which his opponent Helge Braun is campaigning.

In a treacherous moment, the Chancellor once called her CDU the party she was close to.

For an ex-chairwoman who owes everything to the party, it is hardly possible to go any further.

Merz is not “close” to the CDU - he lives and embodies it, and he wants to show that as an idiosyncratic, self-determined and, where necessary, old-fashioned party, it can convince citizens of itself.

That can succeed if he manages to build a young leadership team of women and men around him that represents the party in all its breadth.

Then the CDU doesn't have to worry about the future.

Source: merkur

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