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CDU leader Merz
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At the party conference in autumn, the CDU will decide whether gender parity must prevail in all of its bodies from 2025.
At its meeting, the federal executive board decided to forward a corresponding application to the party congress.
According to SPIEGEL information, party leader Friedrich Merz spoke out in favor of accepting the proposal, but with a time limit.
Accordingly, the quota should apply until 2029 and then be evaluated again.
So far, Merz has been reluctant to position itself on the quota (read more here).
Finally, the application is to be discussed and decided at the CDU party conference on September 9th and 10th in Hanover.
The proposal stipulates that by 2025 - starting with board elections at district level - a women's quota of up to 50 percent should be gradually introduced.
It also includes a 50 percent quota for the first ten list places in state, federal and European elections.
The discussion about a binding quota for women has been going on in the party for two years, and the corresponding application has been available since 2020.
However, since no party conference of the CDU has taken place in person due to the corona pandemic, no decision has yet been made on this.
The Women's Union had pleaded for the quota before the deliberations of the Presidency and Executive Board, while the Small Business and Economic Union (MIT) opposed it.
MIT withdrew a request for a membership survey on women's quota on Wednesday.
MIT chairwoman Gitta Connemann, however, persisted in her opposition.
She told the "Bild" newspaper: "We need more strong women.
But we won't get this with quotas.« The head of the Frauen Union, Annette Widmann-Mauz, supported the proposals of the structure and statute commission for the gradual introduction of a quota.
She declined a membership survey.
Questions of structure and statutes did not lend themselves to simple yes and no answers.
Lower Saxony's CDU leader, Bernd Althusmann, backed the commission's proposals.
"As a modern party, we have to be cosmopolitan, relaxed and relaxed about this issue," he said.
The people in Germany have “other problems than looking at the fact that the CDU in Germany is at odds on this issue”.
A new state parliament will be elected in Lower Saxony on October 9th - Althusmann was hardly interested in the fact that the discussion about a women's quota overshadowed his party's election campaign.
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