Ex-CDU leader Laschet has a new task in the Bundestag

Created: 04/07/2022, 22:14

By: Linus Prien

Armin Laschet © Chris Emil Janssen/Imago

After Armin Laschet lost the federal elections last year and gave up the party leadership, he went about his duties as a member of parliament.

He now holds a new position.

Berlin – The former CDU chairman and former Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet has a new task: he has been in charge of the subcommittee on disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation in the Bundestag since Thursday (April 7), as the Bundestag press office announced.

Laschet was elected chairman at the inaugural meeting of the committee that morning.

Laschet's new task in the subcommittee

It is a subcommittee of the Foreign Affairs Committee with only eleven members.

According to the Bundestag, the body deals with international cooperation "in the renewal of the Euro-Atlantic arms control architecture", with the "maintenance of the system of nuclear non-proliferation" and with questions of disarmament of chemical and biological weapons.

Laschet is also a full member of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the United Nations, International Organizations and Civil Crisis Prevention Subcommittee.

Armin Laschet and the lost federal election

Laschet was elected CDU leader in January 2021, succeeding Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, and stood as the Union’s candidate for chancellor in the federal elections the following autumn.

After the historically poor performance of the CDU and CSU, which meant the election victory for Olaf Scholz, Laschet initiated his resignation from the party leadership after a transition phase.

Friedrich Merz became his successor in January of this year.