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Foreign expert Röttgen wants to be Laschet’s successor as CDU chairman
Who will lead the CDU in the future? This is the question that concerns the Christian Democratic Union after the election defeat at the federal level. Now Norbert Röttgen has thrown his hat into the ring. The 56-year-old officially announced his candidacy in Berlin on Friday, which has been speculated about for a long time. “If I now declare my candidacy for the chairmanship of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany again today, then I am doing it from exactly the same approach, the deep conviction that there is no further, especially no going back, but one defined in terms of content Renewal, the Christian-democratic idea for our time must be worked out with the members, and it must go into competition with the other parties. ” Röttgen also announced that in the event of his election, the 39-year-old Hamburg member of the Bundestag, Franziska Hoppermann, would be the new Secretary General. “We lost the votes and the elections in the middle and we will bring these votes back in the middle so that we can and want to win the state elections in 2022.” At the same time, Röttgen made it clear that in the event of an election he does not want to become head of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group and thus opposition leader. “I will work closely and trustingly with Ralph Brinkhaus,” he said with a view to the incumbent parliamentary group leader. After the defeat in the Bundestag election, the CDU will conduct a member survey from December 17 on who should become the new CDU boss. After polling the grassroots, the CDU wants to elect the new party leadership at a federal party conference in January. The executive minister of the Chancellery, Helge Braun, announced his candidacy for the party chair on Thursday. Friedrich Merz is also considered a possible applicant.
Röttgen also announced that in the event of his election, the 39-year-old Hamburg member of the Bundestag, Franziska Hoppermann, would be the new Secretary General.