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Merz exchanges the general secretary: Linnemann takes over

CDU leader Friedrich Merz now has Carsten Linnemann at his side as Secretary General (archive image)

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Mario Czaja is no longer General Secretary of the CDU. Party leader Friedrich Merz and he want to have mutually agreed to end the cooperation.

CDU leader Friedrich Merz is replacing his general secretary Mario Czaja after a year and a half. Both had “agreed today to end their cooperation at the top of the party,” said the CDU in Berlin on Tuesday. The successor should therefore be the member of the Bundestag and head of the policy commission of the CDU, Carsten Linnemann.

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