NRW Prime Minister Wüst for another term of office for Steinmeier

Created: 01/04/2022, 4:47 PM

North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst during an interview.

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The North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU) has now also spoken out in favor of a second term in office for Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

“The office of Federal President deserves respect.

Out of this state political responsibility, I will personally support Frank-Walter Steinmeier for a second term of office, ”said Wüst to the newspapers of the Funke media group and the editorial network Germany (Tuesday).

Düsseldorf - On Wednesday, the presidia of the CDU and CSU want to discuss how to proceed with the election of the Federal President.

The Union has so far left it open whether it will send its own candidate to the Federal Assembly on February 13th.

Wüst had demanded at the end of last year that the Union should compete with its own candidate.

But now he said: "I have always made it clear that there can be no candidacy without the prospect of a majority - that would only damage the desire for more women in the highest state offices after Angela Merkel said goodbye."

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The SPD, the FDP and, on Tuesday, the Greens have already spoken out in favor of Steinmeier.

His re-election thus seems certain.

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