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The CDU is fighting hard for the presidency. The leader of the Kramp-Karrenbauer party doesn’t like that at all. Warns of permanent damage to the Union.
Outgoing CDU president Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has accused her would-be successors of damaging the party with destructive competition. “During this discussion, the party felt that this fair race had turned into a ruinous competition. And this ruinous competition falls mainly on the candidates themselves, but also on the CDU,” he told the “Augsburger Allgemeine.” “That’s why I always warned.”
The applicants are the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Armin Laschet, the economic politician Friedrich Merz and the foreign politician Norbert Röttgen. In the fight to postpone the next party congress, Merz in particular had fought an open dispute with Laschet, with some personal attacks.
“Today the CDU is a different party”
Kramp-Karrenbauer again called the three to serve the party even in the event of defeat. “That is the clear expectation of the members. We are already in the electoral year in January,” he said.
Kramp-Karrenbauer also warned against a retrospective election campaign: “The CDU has developed very strongly in recent years and decades. It is a different party today than it was 10 or 20 years ago, also because today we are a different society to have.” It must “answer the questions of 2021 and not those of the 80”.
