CDU must become an exciting place for social debates

Created: 2022-01-20 15:41

Andreas Jung, Member of the German Bundestag, speaks in the Bundestag.

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According to its member of parliament Andreas Jung, the CDU, which is suffering from a decline in membership, must become more open to discussion again.

"I think we can become attractive for women, for young people, for everyone in general, that we are the exciting place where social debates are held," said Jung on Thursday in Berlin.

Berlin - The past few years have been characterized by government work, crises and compromises.

"The task now is to tackle these things fundamentally, to develop concepts that you are passionate about, that you advertise, that you go out with and convince."

The CDU must also change its structures, said Jung.

It must become more family-friendly in its opportunities to participate and, for example, use more digital formats.

The 46-year-old CDU politician from Lake Constance is applying for the post of deputy federal chairman at the digital party conference this Saturday.

He wants to succeed the Baden-Württemberg CDU state leader Thomas Strobl in the CDU leadership.

"I'm doing this with the content-related claim of sharpening the profile of the CDU as a party of sustainability," said Jung in an online discussion with journalists.

"We must also claim opinion leadership on these issues." For the Union, it is about "linking the promise of "prosperity for all" with consistent climate protection".

The federal party conference is to elect the economic politician Friedrich Merz to succeed Armin Laschet as CDU chairman.

In December, Merz prevailed in a member survey against foreign politician Norbert Röttgen and the former head of the Chancellery Helge Braun.

Both are now no longer present at the party congress.

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Jung said he wanted a large majority for Merz at the party conference, so that the CDU would also send a signal of unity.

The member survey brought momentum for the CDU, which now has to be taken with it.

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