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CDU presidential candidate Norbert Röttgen wants to give Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn a prominent role in the party if elected, even if Spahn currently supports rival Armin Laschet, North Rhine Prime Minister -Westfalia. “If I become president, Jens Spahn will continue to be a central figure in the party and in the government,” Röttgen told the world. “He will definitely be in the next party presidium.”
Spahn could now count on a vice-post not only under Laschet, but also under Röttgen. Röttgen again made it clear that if elected, he would speak to sister party CSU about the “best lineup” for federal elections.
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“A president of the CDU who considers himself the right candidate for chancellor without buts or buts and who is then informed by his party a little later that he is not wanted as a candidate for chancellor, would have lost his authority,” he emphasized.
In addition to Röttgen and Laschet, Friedrich Merz is running as president of the CDU. Röttgen had already announced in the summer that he could also envision CSU chief Markus Söder as a candidate for chancellor. Laschet had also not excluded Söder as a candidate for chancellor. Merz had said the Union was facing a tough federal election campaign. “That’s why the incumbent comes first – what is the optimal alignment, both in terms of staff and content for both parties – CDU and CSU.”
Röttgen described the equal representation of women as the central issue for the future of the CDU. “I consider that the equal participation of women and men at all levels of the party is the most important modernization task of the CDU,” he said. The CDU falls “like a party out of time” if it fails to do so. “We are giving up so much potential. In ten years you will look back and be surprised that it has been in question for so long. “
