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Siegburg: Oliver Krauss new head of the CDU district association


Siegburg / Rhein-Sieg district –

Oliver Krauss is the new chairman of the CDU Rhein-Sieg. The 52-year-old lawyer and member of the state parliament from Alfter clearly prevailed against his Ruppichterother state parliament colleague Björn Franke on Tuesday evening. 152 delegates voted for the transport politician Krauss at the district party conference in the Siegburg Rhein-Sieg-Forum, while Franconia received 109 votes.

Before the vote on the successor to Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker, who after eleven years at the head of the district association no longer stood for election and wants to concentrate on her parliamentary mandate, Krauss presented himself as a future renewer of the CDU Rhein-Sieg, who in the has lost its undisputed supremacy in the region in recent years and has been losing significantly in membership for years. In his application speech, Krauss focused on the topics of the end of the climate and traffic, while Franken made the delegates a much more conservative political offer, with the focus on strengthening families and home builders as well as internal security.

300 delegates came to the district party conference of the CDU on Tuesday evening in Siegburg.



Krauss, whose victory had already been indicated by the strongest applause of the evening before the vote, also scored points with criticism of the CDU Rhein-Sieg party apparatus. In the event of his election, he announced that he would not hold any further party offices in order to concentrate solely on what he believed to be the necessary renewal process for his party.

300 delegates came to the district town for the party convention of the CDU, which should actually have taken place in October 2020 and had been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Before the election of the new district association chairman, the outgoing head of the district association shared responsibility for the structural change in the district’s population in the debate on the reasons for the CDU’s losses in the 2020 local elections and the federal election and pointed with her finger at new citizens who had come to the district. City dwellers who have moved here do not know who has been responsible for the political successes in the past 20 years, according to the CDU politician. Winkelmeier-Becker also said self-critically: “For us, social policy was neglected in the federal elections. We picked up social trends too late. “

Winkelmeier-Becker, who is also deputy state chairman of the CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia, has not yet given up hope of a Jamaica coalition under the leadership of her party in Berlin. In the opposition there is little scope for profiling compared to a possible traffic light coalition of the SPD, FDP and the Greens. She warned her party against leaving the political center: “Positioning yourself on the right is a mistake, I think.”

District Administrator Sebastian Schuster had previously emphasized in the Rhein-Sieg-Forum that a new start in terms of personnel was not only important in Berlin. The result of the 2020 local elections was already a first wake-up call for the CDU Rhein-Sieg.

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