This nomination even surprised CDU politicians in Baden-Württemberg: Christina Stumpp is a blank slate as Friedrich Merz's Vice Secretary-General.
Berlin / Waiblingen - The fight for the CDU chairmanship is entering a new round.
With a team of three, economic politician Friedrich Merz wants to take over the chief position.
The newly elected member of the Bundestag Christina Stumpp is also part of the team.
Merz even wants to create a new party post for them.
Fight for CDU chairmanship: Merz brings newcomers to his team
In September Christina Stumpp won the direct mandate in her constituency of Waiblingen in Baden-Württemberg. Two months later she is already being traded as the new Vice Secretary General of the CDU. The CDU politician has not yet appeared nationwide. For them, too, the nomination by Friedrich Merz came as a surprise.
The nomination was almost a birthday present for Stumpp: she turned 34 on Tuesday when Friedrich Merz offered her the position of deputy general secretary candidate Mario Czaja.
“That was really very short-term.
We met shortly beforehand in a group of the newly elected MPs, ”she said in an interview with
Die Welt
.
When asked why Merz asked her, Stumpp replied: “In the CDU's worst Bundestag election result, I still achieved a good result.
The basis is important to me.
I like to go out and talk to people and find out where the problem is. ”“ I think he liked that, ”she said.
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She is the surprise in Friedrich Merz's team: CDU politician Christina Stumpp was hardly known outside of her constituency.
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CDU politician Christina Stumpp: Family mother, member of parliament and soon to be Vice Secretary General?
The member of the Bundestag declared her nomination as deputy by saying that this position was more compatible with her family.
Because: the politician has a young son.
In addition, Stumpp also wants to have time for her constituency.
"I can not do magic.
And so I would now like to improve the framework conditions so that maybe at some point the Secretary General will be there for me or for someone else my age.
That is my goal."
As Vice Secretary General, the mother therefore also wants to promote the compatibility of family and work and of politics and family, as she
explained
in the
world
interview.
“As a people's party, we have to represent everyone - young, old, male, female.
And of course, as a young family mother, I am one of them. "
Like another “hero” of the Bundestag election, Stumpp also opts for a seemingly surprising approach: Above all, she wants to be present in her constituency.
Her main task is to “represent the people from my constituency of Waiblingen as members of parliament.
I want to be approachable, "she told the
world
.
Younger, more feminine and more modern: These are Stumpp's goals for the CDU
As a former local politician, Stumpp knows how difficult it can be for women in politics - she wants to change that: “I want to encourage women to get into politics.
The CDU has to become younger and more feminine and more modern.
And I see it as my job as Deputy Secretary General to change and market it. ”However, the office of Deputy Secretary General in the CDU does not yet exist: it would first have to be created through an amendment to the statutes.
Most recently, a female candidate also failed to jump into the list of candidates for the CDU chairperson election.
(sf / AFP)
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