Who will be at the top of the CDU in the future should decide at a special party conference on April 25th. So far, only men are in the race.
- The Government crisis of the CDU is omnipresent in Thuringia even weeks after the political earthquake.
- On special party should clarify who Annegret Kramp cart builder Successor.
- For Friedrich Merz would have AKK another post in mind – but the ex-Union faction leader rejected this.
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Update from February 27, 6.55 a.m .: There are now several candidates who are interested in the CDU Presidency apply. One of them is Friedrich Merz, That plays for the former Union faction leader Age the applicant doesn’t matter. “When I turn on the television in the evening, I see how America’s youth looks like Bernie Sanders at your feet. He is 14 years old and a heart attack older than me, “said the 64-year-old to the newspapers of the Funke media group. For comparison: NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet is 59 years old, ex-environment minister Norbert Röttgen 54th
For Merz, there are no male applicants so far. “We don’t have to apologize if a man becomes CDU chairman again after two decades,” he said. With Angela Merkel and Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer women were at the top of the party for almost 20 years.
CDU chair: Merz doesn’t want a team solution
He is looking forward to the competition until the CDU’s special party conference on April 25, said Merz. “It will be absolutely fair, at least I hope so. We have had serious and trusting discussions in the past weeks. I think each of us is serious about the situation CDU Roger that.”
When asked why there was no so-called team solution with him, Merz said: “The so-called team solution was always synonymous with the fact that I should forego my candidacy.” But he did party convention already received 48 percent of the votes in Hamburg in 2018. “And I am now far ahead of all other CDU competitors in all surveys, even ahead of everyone else. Why should I withdraw there? “
However, Merz also emphasized that Spahn and Laschet belong to a team should he become CDU chairman. “Then we are a team, then we go forward together”.
CDU chaos: AKK surprises at Lanz with admissions
6.30 p.m .: While AKK, Merz and Laschet concentrate on the party’s internal election campaign, Jens Spahn is completely concerned with the corona virus. Now he speaks of the beginning of an epidemic and raises the alarm.
9.23 a.m .: The outgoing CDU leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer added on Tuesday evening Markus Lanz on ZDF surprised with several admissions: AKK initially admitted, not in advance of the joint candidacy of the Duos Armin Laschet and Jens Spahn to have been informed. “It was the case that everyone said in the last few conversations that he thought about it,” she admitted.
Another statement by the CDU chairman on the talk show caused a sensation. When Lanz Kramp-Karrenbauer spoke directly about her retreat, the CDU leader made a self-critical statement: “It is always a question: Do I serve the office or does the office serve me??”, she said. Then she gave the audience and herself the answer. “My impression was that I was the one CDU in this office as party leader can no longer give what she needs. “
When asked about criticism, the AKK repeatedly in the past Laschet had to take the CDU boss responded on the other hand smugly, With a small smile on her lips, she said: “He said yes today, together with Jens Spahn, he has one extremely trusting cooperation cared for with me. And if he says it like that, it will have been like that… ”.
CDU chaos: Brinkhaus warns potential AKK successors – CDU boss makes a confession
Update on February 26, 2020, 8.33 a.m .: After the events in the race for the CDU Presidency flipped on Tuesday Union faction leader Ralph Brinkhaus the Applicant for the chair called for a possible loss in the election to behave loyally, The editorial network Germany said that those who were subject to the new chair’s freestyle during the party conference scheduled for April 25 should accept this. He further demanded that the losers should agree to “loyally support the new chairman” and then do so.
In addition, Brinkhaus warned the future party leader to rely too heavily on polarization. “The CDU’s profile is one thing“, He emphasized. The great feat of one people’s party be it, “to involve everyone“.
Video: Whoever succeeds Kramp-Karrenbauer decides on April 25
9:56 pm:Still-CDU leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer was not in the race for the alliance between Armin Laschet and Jens Spahn party leadership
informed. She only found out about it from the press, she admitted on Tuesday evening in the ZDF program “Markus Lanz” (recording / broadcast at 10.50 pm) in Hamburg. However, she was not surprised that North Rhine-Westphalia’s Prime Minister Laschet and Federal Health Minister Spahn form a team.
In the confidential conversations they had with all kinds of people in the past few days candidates led, it became clear that it boils down to team solutions. It is important that the different currents in the party are brought together, said the outgoing federal chairwoman.
Armin Laschet: “I have an idea what a chancellorship could look like”
7:05 p.m .: The Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia Armin Laschet has his basic willingness to Chancellor candidacy explained – provided he was elected CDU leader and the CSU agreed. The issue will be discussed with the CSU, emphasized the CDU leader candidate on Tuesday in the ZDF broadcast “What now, Mr. Laschet”. He added: “But in principle I’m ready to do that. I have an idea of what a chancellorship could look like. ”Ultimately, the voters would decide.
Laschet emphasized that with NRW he ruled an industrial country with 18 million inhabitants, where many of the social conflicts throughout Germany were represented. He was dealing with a lot of topics that would also concern a future chancellor. Laschet cited as examples the ecology, the phase-out of coal or the energy-intensive industries as well as the large economic sectors that Germany needed if it wanted to remain an industrial country.
CDU chaos: Markus Söder emphasizes the role of the CSU in the question of candidate for chancellor
18.35 p.m .: Markus Söder has underlined the role of the CSU on the question of a common candidate for chancellor of the Union. The CSU will not interfere in the fight vote for the CDU chairmanship. “The CDU has to decide for itself,” said Söder der Passauer Neue Press and the Ingolstadt Danube Courier, With regard to the question of the candidate for chancellor and the election program of the Union, however, it must be clear: “Without the Christian Social Union nobody can chancellor candidate become.”
To the candidates for the CDU presidency – Friedrich Merz, Armin Laschet and Norbert Röttgen – he said: “I know everyone very well and can work with everyone.” The CDU and CSU are sister parties. “And the party family has to stick together.”
Söder warned the Union not to lose its leadership right after the general election. “The coming year will be nothing less than the question of who will be number one in Germany in the future. For the first time in post-war history, this is not decided between the Union and the SPD, but between Union and the Greens“Said the CSU chief.
Meanwhile, Söder’s Vice Prime Minister Hubert Aiwanger has criticized the German government practiced in an interview with Munich’s Merkur *,
Chaos days at the CDU: AKK does not want to be Merkel’s “Date Doctor”
6.30 p.m .: Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Friedrich Merz, Armin Laschet and Jens Spahn could also deliver new headlines tomorrow – all four CDU politicians are on political Ash Wednesday.
4:05 pm: Still-CDU leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has rejected speculation that the realignment in the party could do that From Angela Merkels as Chancellor mean. “As far as this legislative period is concerned, the separation of party presidency and chancellorship is a fact,” said Kramp-Karrenbauer mirror, “There was no vote on Monday in the Presidium and the Federal Executive Board that would have seen it differently. On the contrary: There was, without exception, the expectation that in the current constellation we would be responsible until the end of the legislative period. So with Angela Merkel as Chancellor. “
Kramp-Karrenbauer defends Merkel – but sounds annoyed: “I’m not the Date Doctor”
Kramp-Karrenbauer emphasized that she herself was “at peace” with Merkel. The participants would have to decide whether the applicants for the CDU chairmanship and Merkel should speak to each other. “I am not the Date Doctor between the Union and the Chancellery. We are all grown up. “
The outgoing CDU chairman campaigned for the integration of Friedrich Merz, When asked whether the 64-year-old should move into the federal cabinet, she said: “I have always made it very clear that Friedrich Merz embodies for me a part of this party that is important and belongs to the breadth of the CDU. That is why I have always offered to work with me. And I still think it makes sense to involve them. ”However,“ the Chancellor decides on cabinet issues in consultation with the party ”.
Kramp-Karrenbauer clearly opposed them Interference of the CSU in the personnel affairs of the CDU, “A few weeks ago, it was said that we now need a cabinet reshuffle quickly, and then the question of the candidacy for chancellor should be clarified quickly. Now it is suddenly said that the candidate question can only be resolved at the end of this year or even next year. There can be a certain lack of understanding. ” CSU General Secretary Markus Blume had on Monday at the request of Munich Mercury* Criticism of the actions of the sister party,
CDU chaos: Spahn gives Merz one – SMS leaked
15.55 p.m .: Just got started Health Minister Jens Spahn surprised with his announcement not to run for the party chair and instead to prime minister of North Rhine-Westphalia Armin Laschet to support. In the event of success, he would assume the post of deputy.
Even before he went to the press with the news, he is said to have already announced this in a secret SMS, like that image (behind payment barrier) reported. And according to the newspaper, it should have it in some places.
“Good morning, I will be at the federal press conference with Armin at 9:30 am today to present ourselves as a duo. He is party chairman and candidate for chancellor, I deputy party chairman and ‘second strong man’ ‘, according to the report, his message should have started.
CDU: Jens Spahn is said to have sent secret SMS – that’s why he doesn’t support Friedrich Merz
The decision was difficult for him, but “now it’s about the unity of our party. It’s about whether we still have chancellors in this country, ”wrote Spahn. The CDU politician should then have answered the question why he does not have a team Merz want to form: “Because that would not be a team that complements each other to represent the unity, the middle and the breadth of the party.” In his opinion, the two would have complemented each other well as a team, but “as number one are from my point of view with FM, the risks are significantly greater than any short-term gain from his fans. ”
If the news is true, it could be seen as an indirect allegation against Merz. What exactly Spahn but if the news meant it, he could soon explain in more detail, according to the newspaper.
12.40 p.m .: CDU politician Friedrich Merz apparently has one Post in the federal cabinet rejected on Monday, That reports Bild.de citing CDU party circles. Accordingly, CDU boss Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer Merz the Ministerial posts on Monday offered before the Bureau meeting, but the ex-Union faction leader rejected it in a telephone conversation.
The exciting question is whether Chancellor Angela Merkel knew about this offer. Because if Merz had agreed, Merkel would have had to approve the whole thing. How Bild.de reports, the deputy federal chairmen had agreed at a meeting on Monday in front of the presidium to have Merz as a minister against Merkel if he wanted to go to the cabinet.
Background: This would have cleared the way for the duo Laschet / Spahn in the end. Now it is likely that the two will fight against Merz and Röttgen. The election will take place in late April.
CDU: race for chair picks up speed – Röttgen wants female support
10.42 a.m .: While Armin Laschet and Jens Spahn want to vote as a new leadership duo at the top of the CDU also does Norbert Röttgen an announcement of who will support him if he is elected CDU leader. Röttgen wants one Mrs stand in his team for party chairmanship. He announced this on Tuesday during the press conference of his competitor Armin Laschet on Twitter.
Röttgen initially left open who exactly the woman will be. “Women are at the forefront of the CDU,” said Röttgen on the Phoenix TV station. “If the CDU wants to be a center party, it is not enough to just say so,” he added.
The second person on my team will be a woman. #CDU
– Norbert Röttgen (@n_roettgen) February 25, 2020
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CDU: Big news from Laschet and Spahn – they want to become the new management duo
Update from February 25, 2020 at 8.17 a.m .: Next hit in the CDU! The North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Armin Laschet is also running for the post, as the German Press Agency in Berlin learned from party circles on Tuesday. Laschet briefly invited to a press conference for 9:30 a.m. together with Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU).
Spahn, on the other hand, is not running for the CDU chairmanship. According to dpa information from the North Rhine-Westphalian CDU, Laschet wants to propose him as deputy if he is elected party leader.
Previously, CDU foreign policy had last week Norbert Röttgen announced his candidacy. The former head of the Union faction also wanted in the morning Friedrich Merz declare that he will run, as the German press agency learned on Monday from party circles.
CDU: Merz has not yet commented on his possible candidacy on Monday evening
8.44 p.m .: Former Union faction leader Friedrich Merz did not comment on a candidacy for the CDU federal presidency when he appeared in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania. He wants“contribute”To master the challenges of the next few years, he merely confirmed on Monday evening in front of around 170 guests at the CDU’s herring dinner in Ueckermünde.
Merz called that Hamburg election result as “disaster” for the CDU. Now the right analysis is important. This means that the Greens are probably the main opponent of the CDU in the next general election. “And I’m looking forward to it,” said the 64-year-old.
Merz also spoke in favor of “Early elections” in Thuringia. The CDU had made a huge mistake there, he said with a view to the election of the FDP politician Thomas Kemmerich to the prime minister. “But we stand together.”
CDU: First reactions to Friedrich Merz’s candidacy
8.15 p.m .: Friedrich Merz will probably be the next official candidate for the Post as CDU chief, that seems clear since Monday evening. Less than two hours after the information leaked, Merz spoke up with a programmatic posting on Twitter – and quickly met with fierce criticism.
“The CDU must be the party of law and order and the rule of law. Legal spaces and clan structures there must be nowhere, ”Merz had an employee spread through the short message service. Where such structures exist, they would have to be “consistently broken up, no matter how much protest that triggers”, the post went on to say. A clear statement for “law and order”. However, no concrete context became apparent.
Video: Markus Söder in surveys on Merz’s heels
This is exactly what Juso boss and SPD vice took Kevin Kühnert on Reason for criticism of Merz – and his Competitor Norbert Röttgen. Shortly after the scandal election of Thuringia and a few days after the Hanau attack, the CDU chose “clan structures” and the “Venezuela relationship of the left as issues to be discussed urgently,” he complains. “It can be a cheerful competition.”
Three weeks after #Thuringia and a few days after #Hanau choose the #CDU “Clan structures” (#Merz) and the Venezuela relationship of the left (# Röttgen) as urgent topics to be discussed. It can be a cheerful competition. https://t.co/SJZNd3qHbm
– Kevin Kuehnert (@KuehniKev) February 24, 2020
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18:34: The CDU politician Friedrich Merz wants to comment on Tuesday about his plans for a candidacy for the CDU chairmanship. In the federal press conference in Berlin he wants to speak at 11:00 a.m. about the “candidacy for the CDU chair”, as it was announced on Monday evening in the announcement. The former Union faction leader is expected to reapply for party chairmanship.
CSU does not want to support the CDU’s plan for early clarification of the K question
6:26 pm: The Christian Social Union does not want to support the CDU’s plan for an early determination of a candidate for chancellor. CSU General Secretary Markus Blume pleaded in “Munich Mercury* “(Tuesday edition) for not naming the joint candidate for chancellor of the Union parties until next year. On the sister party’s plans, he said it was” good that the CDU has a clear road map for how it wants to get a new party leader. Other questions – especially after the chancellor candidacy – don’t connect with it. “
The CSU general secretary reacted to statements by CDU chief Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, The latter announced on Monday that the new party leader would be elected at a party conference on April 25 – and that the election of the new CDU chairman would then be a “very clear prejudice for the chancellor candidate”.
Unlike the question of the CDU presidency, the designation of the candidate for chancellor of the Union is by CDU and Christian Social Union decided together – the Bavarian sister party has a say here. The general secretary, Blume, now warned the CDU: “The timing is important – and that is definitely not this year anymore.”
Merz is probably officially running for CDU presidency
6:19 p.m .: The former Union faction leader Friedrich Merz now wants to officially run for the CDU chairmanship. Dpa found out about this on Monday from party circles. Previously, the federal press conference had the title “On the candidacy for the CDU chair” for Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. press conference invited.
CDU chair: clear announcements by Spahn and Laschet on Thursday?
4.10 p.m .: The question of who is the CDU Presidency advertised remains exciting. Also at the press conference on Monday afternoon AKK no concrete statements on whether the favorites Friedrich Merz, Armin Laschet and Jens Spahn will officially run. But on Thursday, some sort of preliminary decision fall. Because then they come CDU top politicians from North Rhine-Westphalia to their Board meeting together, write focus.de, Observers expect both Spahn and Laschet to indicate at this meeting whether they want to run. However, according to a survey, the situation is quite different Candidate in the race for the CDU presidency,
CDU crisis: CSU is angry about AKK’s statements on CDU chairmanship and chancellor candidacy
3.40 p.m .: With her statements about the upcoming election of her successor and a related one “Signal effect” for the Chancellor candidacy has CDU boss Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer the sister party CSU upset, This procedure was “not agreed upon” and one was “very surprised” about it, it said on Monday from the CSU top in Munich. The Christian Socialists would firmly assume that the search for the joint candidate for chancellor, as in the past, would be the responsibility of the party leaders of the CDU and CSU, who would then be in office.
2:50 p.m .: Following the press conference of the CDU expressed himself SPD general secretary Lars Klingbeil on the allegations by Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. “I obviously played a bigger role at this conference,” he said. He also wondered if he shouldn’t have been louder than it became clear that the Union was considering using the AFD to cooperate, reports focus.de, He also asked for a clear demarcation from the AfD not only propagated by Kramp-Karrenbauer, but must also be lived in the regional associations.
CDU crisis: strategies of CDU candidates “shock” Greens boss Annalena Baerbrock
2.47 p.m .: Even Green Party leader Annalena Baerbock has the in the press conference on Monday after the election in Hamburg CDU leadership crisis addressed. The differences in the strategies of the candidates “horrify me,” said Baerbock. Why is the debate about the CDU presidency in the interests of the Greens at all? Because trust “in politics and political parties was not the best in the past few years.” Politics must stabilize and give direction. But the CDU candidates left no clear direction of the CDU detect. That is particularly “dramatic”, Baerbock continues, because after the attack in Hanau “People in the midst of us” are afraid and waiting for a political answer.
CDU crisis: AKK shoots against SPD general secretary Klingbeil – “conscious defamation”
2:36 p.m .: In addition to the agenda for the planned special party conference on April 25, the CDU chief discussed the issue Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer Statements by the SPD general secretary at the press conference following the presidium meeting Lars Klingbeil, after which a unclear relationship between CDU and AfD existed. “We have a very clear attitude: there is no cooperation with the AfD“Clarified AKK. Then she went to the verbal blow to the ax out. “The SPD general secretary has been driving one for a year Dirt campaign against the CDU“She criticized.
CDU chief Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer at the press conference after the presidium meeting.
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“He has been standing for months and claims that there is a problem with the CDU with the demarcation from the AfD.” If he had this view, he would have to call on his party from Grand coalition to resign, said AKK. However, he has not yet done so. Klingbeils statements that the CDU would not distinguish itself clearly enough from the AfD, the CDU boss can therefore only as “conscious defamation and evaluate dirt campaign “.
2.20 p.m .: CDU leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer announced at the press conference on Monday afternoon that the potential candidates for her successor, Friedrich Merz, Armin Laschet and Jens Spahn, would like to say “quickly this week” whether they would run for the CDU chairmanship. Because so far only Norbert Röttgen officially launched his candidacy announced for the CDU chairmanship. “The declared and potential applicants I spoke to clearly stated in a personal conversation with me that they respect any outcome of the congress AKK continued, emphasized. Regardless of the outcome of the special party congress, they will continue to make a visible contribution to the CDU’s future work.
CDU crisis: new CDU chief is also to become candidate for chancellor
2:07 p.m .: The outgoing CDU chief informed at the press conference following the CDU Presidium meeting on Monday morning Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer about the latest developments in the search for their successor. She explained, as was previously known, that on one one-day special party conference on April 25 in Berlin on new CDU chairman elected shall be. “For us that is also that clear signal linked to the candidate for chancellor“, She emphasized further. In addition, any vacant positions on the CDU federal executive board and in the executive committee are to be filled at the party conference on April 25. The election of the entire Presidium and Board of Directors should only take place at the regular CDU party conference in December.
Update at 1:47 p.m .: The CDU chief’s press conference Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and the top Hamburg candidate Marcus Weinberg, apparently is delayed. It was originally scheduled for 1.30 p.m. following the CDU Presidium meeting, but so far the two politicians have not yet appeared before the press. Meanwhile, it was said from groups of participants in Berlin that NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet campaigned for it again in his party, including one in the new election to the party leadership team’s formation, to find.
Read also: The international press comments ruthlessly about the government chaos in Berlin,
CDU crisis: Laschet considers the situation to be “serious” and emphasizes the importance of personal discussions
Laschet further emphasized that the situation of the CDU was serious and that it was right in this situation to take the time for personal talks and do everything possible to get a team line-up. The Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia also recalled that this was also decisive for the election victory in 2017 in the line-up of the North Rhine-Westphalian CDU together with Karl-Josef Laumann from the workers’ wing after the devastating electoral defeat in 2012. Laschet had a lot of approval for his statements at the Presidium meeting received, it said from groups of participants.
First report from February 24, 2020:
Berlin – After the political quake at Thuringian Prime Minister election is also the Federal CDU still in crisis. Party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer announced her in early February resignation, So far, it is still completely open who will become her successor.
CDU crisis: Armin Laschet, Friedrich Merz and Jens Spahn are favorites for the CDU executive chair
Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia are favorites for her successor Armin Laschet*, Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn* and the former chairman of the CDU parliamentary group Friedrich Merz*, foreign policy Norbert Röttgen* however, is the only one to be officially his Candidature announced Has. Although the selection of actually established candidates has so far been extremely limited, the CDU informed on Monday morning that a Special party conference for April 25
it’s planned. Then it should be decided who will be the new party leader.
Meanwhile, the hope for an amicable disappears in the CDU leadership “Team solution” for the new election of the party leader in Berlin. Such a solution with previous agreements between the possible candidates, NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet, ex-Union faction leader Friedrich Merz and Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn would be very difficult, it said on Monday in the party on the sidelines of the board meeting in Berlin. It was in the previous meeting of the party presidium urgent appeals for such a solution given. The only official candidate for the CDU chairmanship, Norbert Röttgen, is said to have played no role in these appeals.
The outgoing chairman AKK and. Want to know about the results of today’s board meeting Hamburg’s top CDU candidate Marcus Weinberg in a press conference early Monday afternoon.
#Hello, Following today’s committee meetings, the press conference will take place at 1.30 p.m. @akk and @MarcusWeinberg instead of. Live here on Twitter or via https://t.co/Ko9ZHJ5Z4P, #servicetweet pic.twitter.com/iWIdgFtSx5
– CDU Germany (@CDU) February 24, 2020
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CDU crisis: could a candidate for a fight possibly split the party?
In large parts of the CDU leadership there is worry, that the Division in the party could not be overcome in a new fight. In 2018, Kramp-Karrenbauer was only very narrowly able to prevail against Merz at a party convention. As a result, she also struggled with the fact that parts of his followers were not satisfied with the decision.
But not only the CDU chairmanship at federal level will soon have to be filled, too Thuringia’s state chairman Mike Mohring
announced his resignation. The reason, however, puzzles.
After the disastrous results for the CDU in Thuringia and Hamburg: Kramp-Karrenbauer attacks the SPD general secretary Lars Klingbeil – the SPD is supposed to “leave this government”.
* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
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