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The Junge Union Hessen celebrates on the stage to "Layla"
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The Ballermann on Mallorca is known for rough but not particularly profound songs.
In a current club hit called »Layla«, the line »prettier, younger, hornier« is rhymed with a prostitute of the same name.
Now the song is causing outrage – but not because it was played in Mallorca.
The Junge Union Hessen played the song at their state conference in Kassel.
The delegates' meeting took place on the first weekend in June in Baunatal near Kassel.
An excerpt of the meeting is now doing the rounds on Twitter.
The video shows several delegates clapping on the stage to "Layla".
The Marburg SPD politician and state chairwoman of the Hessian Jusos, Sophie Frühwald, shared the scene on Twitter and accused the Junge Union of "blatant sexism".
This also shows how serious the CDU is about promoting women.
For the accusation of sexism, Frühwald was immediately attacked himself.
The former CDU member of the Bundestag Christian Natterer accused her of playing "moral police": "Freak out.
That's completely ridiculous." The video is not embarrassing, "but your tweet," wrote the Saxon CDU politician Lucas Schopphoven.
When asked by SPIEGEL, the JU state chairman Sebastian Sommer replied that "music tastes have always been different".
The excerpt distributed on Twitter shows one minute of a two-day event.
»Furthermore, at the JU, we don’t miss out on partying in addition to working.«
»50% politics, 50% party«
The opportunities for politicians in the CDU have been an issue for a long time - after his election, CDU leader Friedrich Merz announced that he wanted to promote more women.
In a recent meeting of the federal executive board, Merz was even open to a quota for women in the CDU management floor.
The regulation could initially be provided with a time limit.
Accordingly, the quota should apply until 2029 and then be evaluated again.
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.
Now things could move forward: Finally, the application should be discussed and decided at the CDU party conference in September.
The proposal stipulates that by 2025 - starting with board elections at district level - a women's quota of up to 50 percent will be gradually introduced.
It also includes a 50 percent quota for the first ten list places in state, federal and European elections.
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As far as their choice of songs is concerned, it is not the first time that the Hessian party youth has been criticized.
A video was already circulating in 2018 showing members shouting the “Westerwald March”.
The song was very popular with the Wehrmacht during World War II.
The Bundeswehr warned its soldiers in a song book about when and in what context it can be sung.
In 2017, the distribution of the songbook was stopped, so the "Westerwald March" was de facto no longer sung by soldiers.
At the time, the Junge Union reacted with a half-hearted statement, saying that the song made “no political statement whatsoever”.
It was sung as part of an excursion to Berlin, so the meeting was »exuberant and atmospheric«.
The motto "50% politics, 50% party" has been tried and tested for decades.
With regard to the song selection at the meeting in Baunatal, the Junge Union has apparently remained true to at least half of its motto.
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