NRW election: CDU board nominates Wüst as top candidate

Created: 2022-02-07 20:32

Hendrik Wüst (CDU), Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Three months before the state elections, the North Rhine-Westphalian CDU has set the course for its top candidate, Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst.

On Monday evening, the state executive in Düsseldorf unanimously decided to nominate the CDU state leader as number one on the candidate list for the election on May 15, as the NRW-CDU confirmed.

250 delegates will vote on the list on March 19.

Düsseldorf - Binding vote at a meeting in Essen in February.

The list of candidates is drawn if a party is entitled to more seats in the state parliament than it has won direct mandates or if a member of the state parliament resigns and a successor can therefore move into parliament.

In several previous state elections, the list hardly played a role for the NRW-CDU.

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In the 2017 NRW state elections, the CDU won all of its 72 mandates directly in the constituencies.

In the end, however, two women who came after them got their chance via the reserve list, after others had renounced in favor of government offices.

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