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.