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After the departure of head of state Holger Stahlknecht in Saxony-Anhalt, the CDU Saxony-Anhalt is looking for a successor. According to information from SPIEGEL, several members of the State Party have spoken in favor of the former Secretary General and EU deputy, Sven Schulze, taking over the presidency of the state association. Defenders include much of the state executive.
Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff also expressly wants Schulze to be head of state, it is said. Schulze himself doesn’t want to comment on this yet. “We currently have more important questions to solve,” he told SPIEGEL. And he emphasizes: “Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff is in any case our main candidate for the next state elections.”
In some conflicts in the past, Schulze had repeatedly clashed with the SPD and the Greens in his role as secretary general. On the other hand, it is very clear that there would be no cooperation with the AfD with him. In Stahlknecht’s case, this was called into question for the last time.
Backing from Hamburg and Thuringia
In the federal party, Schulze is seen as a smart strategist who in the future could probably better balance the difficult conditions in the coalition in Magdeburg alongside Haseloff, if the government survives its crisis.
»Sven Schulze is strategically very intelligent, clear on the subject and at the same time has the ability to forge compromises and unite different trends. It is well connected across the state borders of Saxony-Anhalt and also enjoys a great reputation here in Hamburg, ”CDU Hamburg regional head Christoph Ploß told SPIEGEL. “Sven Schulze would certainly be an advantage as state chairman of the CDU Saxony-Anhalt,” said CDU Thuringia’s top candidate Mario Voigt.
The date of the party’s state conference at which the new president will be elected has not yet been set. The deputies and the general secretary should take over Schulze during the transition period.
Stahlknecht had announced that he would not resign as president of the state until Tuesday, December 8, which created confusion. “In the event that there is a coalition committee on the issue of the ‘Rundfunkstaatsvertrag’ in the coming days, the secretary general and MEP Sven Schulze will represent the CDU Saxony-Anhalt,” the state executive clarified on Sunday evening.
