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The 27-year-old state chairman of the Junge Union Anna Kreye
Photo: Gottfried Schwarz
Almost exactly a year ago, three young women were elected to the CDU's federal executive committee: Laura Hopmann, Wiebke Winter and Anna Kreye.
The three women were something of a signal: the predominantly male party, which for years has not been able to achieve a quota for women, can also be young and female.
After the Union's election campaign defeat, one of them has now decided not to run again in the election at the end of January: The 27-year-old state chairman of the Junge Union in Saxony-Anhalt, Anna Kreye, lets a man go instead, as the »Süddeutsche Zeitung« reports .
Kreye withdrew after the proportional representation of the state association of Saxony-Anhalt had already been fulfilled with two party colleagues when it was set up.
In addition to Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff, who is applying for the presidium, another candidate from Saxony-Anhalt had already expressed his interest for the board: 42-year-old Sven Schulze is state chairman of the CDU in Saxony-Anhalt and economics minister in Haseloff's cabinet.
According to a report by the SZ, Kreye did not want to run for a fight.
"Of course it was a great thing"
The “SZ” said to Kreye: “Of course it was a great thing that we sat on the federal executive board with three young women.
We could also be a bit of a sting at one point or another.
The Chancellor also always listened to us very carefully. "
Their withdrawal is also interesting in light of the fact that the new party chairman Friedrich Merz had announced that he wanted to have "more women and young people" in the party leadership in the future.
He offered the Junge Union a place in the presidium.
Kreye commented on the process to the “SZ” with the following words: “Friedrich Merz said that we have to become younger and more feminine.
I'm curious how he'll do it. "
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