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Armin Laschet has spoken out against the CDU electoral party conference scheduled for early December. What the parties expect of the citizens, they have to do themselves: reduce contacts whenever possible. “This party conference is not absolutely necessary now, it can be postponed,” said the North Rhine-Westphalia prime minister of “Welt am Sonntag”.
Laschet is quoted as saying that all outstanding issues could also be decided after winter. “Now we must concentrate all our strength, energy and efforts on fighting the pandemic. People in Germany have less than ever an understanding of the fact that the parties are now dealing with themselves.”
Laschet is running for the presidency with economic politician Friedrich Merz and foreign politician Norbert Röttgen. Merz definitely wants the party conference to take place. “We have to let it happen, in spite of Corona, and we must not allow the comparison to be made between the folk festival, Oktoberfest and the football game,” he said Thursday night at a CDU event in Hamburg.
The CDU leadership wants to decide on the party congress on Monday. The party’s conference is considered to be spread over multiple locations, with mutual connection via video. According to information from dpa, the model could be a corresponding planning for the Lower Saxony CDU state party conference on November 7.
According to information from “WamS”, the general secretary of the CDU, Paul Ziemiak, wants to present a corresponding concept to the committees this Monday, which was examined and approved by internal lawyers of the CDU and by experts from the Ministry of the Interior. The CDU would not meet with 1001 delegates in Stuttgart as previously planned, but with 100-200 delegates each in eight to ten rooms in Germany. The speeches of the candidates would be broadcast everywhere, the scrutiny would be carried out in each room under notarial supervision.
Saarland Prime Minister Tobias Hans defended this variant in the “WamS” and declared: “Postponing the party congress until the spring of next year would be the worst alternative.” The leader of the Union parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Ralph Brinkhaus, said that as long as the number of new infections continues to rise to a high level, a party congress is unthinkable.
