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Friday, October 30, 2020
From the point of view of the head of the CDU, Kramp-Karrenbauer, it is “very lucky” to have a chancellor like Angela Merkel in the current crisis. However, looking ahead to the federal elections in autumn 2021, he says there are other crisis managers in Germany as well.
CDU president Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has ruled out that Chancellor Angela Merkel could run again in light of the corona pandemic. “We also have other crisis managers in Germany,” said Kramp-Karrenbauer ntv. “So I am pretty sure that she can carry out her personal life planning and then we will have people who can continue to run Germany well.”
At the same time, AKK said it was “very lucky” to have a chancellor in the current situation who “acts like she does and keeps a cool head in such a crisis.”
“Too many conspiracy theories”
In the “early start” of ntv, Kramp-Karrenbauer also took a position for the first time on the debate on the party congress and the statements of the former leader of the parliamentary group Friedrich Merz. After the decision to postpone the party congress, Merz, who is running for the CDU presidency, said that “parts of the party establishment” wanted to prevent it.
After Merz made these remarks, “I received a lot of reactions from members of the federal executive committee – by the way also supporters of Friedrich Merz – who felt hurt in his honor for being accused of something like that,” said Kramp-Karrenbauer. . . “There are currently too many conspiracy theories in Germany for my liking.”
Kramp-Karrenbauer said he did not know anyone in the party who wanted to warn Merz with all their might. There is an “open candidate race” at CDU, which has been “very fair” over the past few months. “It is important that we keep a cool head and that we are united in the party,” said the president of the CDU.
Saarland Prime Minister Tobias Hans said something similar on Friday on ntv: “My request would really be for my party: now we must also maintain decency in our dealings with each other, because that also means leadership in such a crisis.” .
Preferably a party conference with presence
“It was not easy for anyone” to postpone the party conference, Kramp-Karrenbauer said. However, this change “compared to the existential question of many other people” is a manageable question that can be resolved. Above all, “it is not a decision criterion which candidate wants on which date.”
When asked when exactly the party congress will take place, he said: “The sooner there is clarity, the better. Preferably at a party congress where we can meet physically.” In a congress of a digital party one may not have “legal certainty” for the election of the board. Voting by mail is “the last resort.”
