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A decision will be made in mid-January on the issue of leadership in the CDU; the three candidates for the party presidency have agreed to this. He wants to ask the federal executive to hold the party congress at this time.
The three candidates for the CDU presidency have agreed that the question of leadership will be decided at a party conference in mid-January. Secretary General Paul Ziemiak announced it on Twitter.
Armin Laschet, Friedrich Merz and Norbert Röttgen agreed “after intensive consultation to ask the CDU federal executive committee to hold a party congress in mid-January 2021,” Ziemiak wrote after a conversation with the three candidates and the leader of the Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer match. “This agreement is a strong sign of cohesion in our party.”
Conference of the desired presence party
Ziemiak further explained: “The candidates prefer a party conference with a central presence. If that and a party conference with a decentralized presence were not possible, they advocate an online party conference with digital election of the federal executive committee. This choice should be confirmed by a single final written vote. The detailed procedure, as well as legal and technical issues, must finally be decided at the CDU council meeting on December 14.
Merz confirmed the deal on Twitter. He appreciated this “a lot,” he wrote. “It is a good compromise that we agreed today.”
Kramp-Karrenbauer appeal
Due to the rapid spread of the corona virus, the CDU board decided last Monday to waive the party conference in December. As a result, the power struggle in the party had reached a critical point. Merz argued that parts of the “party establishment” wanted to prevent his success in this way. In the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung”, he later defended himself against accusations about his choice of words. He “claimed neither a conspiracy nor a plot.”
More recently, Kramp-Karrenbauer had asked the “Spiegel” candidates to treat each other fairly. “The more ruinous the competition, the more people can ask about other applicants as a reflection of this discussion,” he said. Health Minister Jens Spahn is also a possible candidate. When asked if she would compete again, Kramp-Karrenbauer replied: “We have a clear position.”
