New party leadership
CDU wants to reorganize the entire board at the party congress
CDU General Secretary Paul Ziemiak called on the Union to deal with the election disaster. You could “not go back to business,” he said.
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According to General Secretary Ziemiak, the entire CDU board is to be re-elected at a special party conference. This is also intended to deal with the Union’s electoral disaster. Simply going back to the agenda is not an option, says Ziemiak.
The CDU wants to redefine its leadership by the beginning of next year. A special party conference should then re-elect the entire federal executive committee of the party, said General Secretary Paul Ziemiak after meetings of the CDU presidium and the federal executive committee on Monday. The exact date for the party congress and a possible member survey about the future CDU leadership should therefore be decided at the beginning of November.
To begin with, there will be a conference of the district chairpersons. They should also deal with the question of whether and in what form there should be greater participation in the search for a new party leadership. A decision will then be made on November 2nd, said Ziemiak.
Ziemiak calls for an election disaster to be dealt with
The processing of the poor performance in the federal election must be done “brutally openly,” said Ziemiak. The CDU could “not go back to the agenda”, all topics would have to be on the table, including the question of the selection of the future candidate for chancellor.
In the federal election at the end of September, the Union had the worst result in its history with 24.1 percent. Since then, Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet has come under massive criticism. Last week he signaled his readiness to retire as party leader. Laschet strives for an amicable solution without personnel disputes.