Laschet presents the team: eight people for the final spurt

Three weeks before the federal election, Union Chancellor candidate Laschet wants to get out of the polls with an eight-person team. Former parliamentary group leader Merz is one of the four men and four women.

Union chancellor candidate Armin Laschet presented an election campaign team around three weeks before the general election. Laschet presented eight women and men with whom he wants to move into the crucial weeks of the election campaign. The team referred to by the CDU / CSU as the “future team” includes the former Union parliamentary group leader Friedrich Merz and digital state minister Dorothee Bär.

For him it was always important that the CDU be visible as a team, said Laschet. He has appointed eight experts who have new ideas for the future. They stand for what the Union wants to implement after the election on September 26th. The team reflects the diversity of the country and the party, said Laschet.

Merz is responsible for economics

In the election campaign team, ex-parliamentary group leader Merz is to be responsible for the areas of economy and finance, Bär for the topic of digitization. Schleswig-Holstein’s minister of education, Karin Prien, is responsible for education policy, and the Saxon minister of culture, Barbara Klepsch, for the area of ​​”equal living conditions”. CDU Vice Silvia Breher should take over the topic of family policy.

Music manager Joe Chialo, who is applying for a direct mandate in the Bundestag in Berlin-Spandau, was presented as cultural representative. Union parliamentary group deputy Andreas Jung is responsible for climate protection policy, while terrorism expert Peter Neumann from King’s College in London is responsible for internal and external security. Neumann is “one of the scientists who can translate science into practical politics,” said Laschet at the presentation in the Konrad-Adenauer-Haus.

Persistent survey low for Laschet

The Union has been in a polling low for weeks, this also applies in particular to Laschet himself. In polls, he is well behind the SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz. In the youngest ARD Germany trend lost the CDU and CSU seven points to 20 percent, the SPD increased significantly and is the strongest party again for the first time since February 2017.

Against this background, there had been discussions in the Union for weeks about getting back on the offensive with the presentation of a team around Laschet.