In the debate about the CDU presidency, health ministers Jens Spahn for one
possible team solution even with yourself as a second force behind Friedrich Merz or Armin Laschet open
shown. “I don’t include or exclude anything now,” said Spahn
to a corresponding question in the ARD broadcast Report from Berlin, After this announced withdrawal by CDU chief
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer now wants the party “over the right one
Talk about a team solution, “said Spahn.” Whoever they ask, everyone has their own
Preference who should be at the front of the team. ”
The
Health Minister advocated quick, collaborative decisions
out. “There is a great need among our voters and our members
that we can do it as a team and with a lot of responsibility, “said
Spahn next to the previous one Union faction leader
Merz and North Rhine-Westphalia’s Prime Minister Laschet as possible candidate for the leadership position applies. With regard to the chancellor’s candidacy, Spahn said that it was sometimes, of course, for tactical reasons
better to make a decision closer to the choice. At the
current state of CDU But above all, clarity is needed – in terms of content and personnel.
It is important to look for a team that “unites the party and the claim
makes it clear to shape the 20s, “said the minister.
Kramp-Karrenbauer
had declared last Monday that she was not a candidate for Chancellor of the Union
want to and will also give up the CDU chairmanship. The candidate
is to be found by summer and confirmed by the party congress in December and then also take over the CDU chairmanship. Kramp-Karrenbauer
responded with their decision to the debacle in Thuringiawhere the CDU together in the state parliament
with FDP and AfD the FDP politician Thomas Kemmerich as prime minister
had chosen. As of next week she wants to go with the Interested parties speak for the chair. According to the CDU general secretary
Paul Ziemiak are also two applications from previously unknown nationwide
Party members received.
Peter Altmaier speaks of “serious situation”
Given the unsettled
Minister of Economy Peter Altmaier (CDU) spoke of a “serious
Situation “for his party. It is a question of whether the Union is capable of being permanent
tying more than 30 percent of voters to himself, he said in the Germany radio, He thinks that
possible, but require discipline and willingness from all involved
defer personal ambitions. So it was right that it was
now give “a certain pause for thought”.
The boss of the
SME union, Carsten Linnemann, said the Rheinische Post, there is great hope in the party that it
come to a team solution and there is no division. “The value of an amicable
Agreement is to be valued higher than a lengthy public tugging with
Combat candidates, “said Linnemann. Union faction leader Ralph Brinkhaus referred
on ZDF for complicated clarifications. “That’s why we have to take our time now
take for it and we have to do it in peace, “said Brinkhaus. Like the process for that
Selection of the new CDU leadership should look like that CDU-Bureau
set on February 24th.
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