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Laschet goes, Wüst comes
Applause for Armin Laschet, the outgoing chairman of the CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia and still prime minister. A warm farewell, so the impression before Armin Laschet, the defeated candidate for chancellor of the Union, moves to Berlin as a simple member of parliament. Reason enough for him to look back on the federal election. “I think that’s wise, by the way, when you’ve lost an election, that you don’t paint the drama on a huge scale now. When I read how some people present themselves as candidates for the Federal Presidency and say: This is the CDU’s greatest crisis since 1945 Or something like that. Well, that doesn’t inspire any voters to re-elect the CDU. Well, that’s real nonsense. And if I think back to myself for a short time, the party donation affair in 2000 was, in case of doubt, a bigger one for the substance of the CDU than when it was you are two percent or three percent behind the election winner. So therefore, leave the cups in the cupboard, approach things realistically. ” Even before the federal election, Laschet had declared that he would resign from his post as Prime Minister in North Rhine-Westphalia even in the event of a defeat. On Saturday afternoon, the CDU NRW elected the transport minister of the federal state Hendrik Wüst as Laschet’s successor at the head of the CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia. He should also inherit Laschet as prime minister. The election in the state parliament in Düsseldorf is scheduled for Wednesday. In May, a new state parliament will be elected in North Rhine-Westphalia.
The CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia elected Hendrik Wüst as its new chairman with 98.3 percent of the vote. The Minister of Transport in North Rhine-Westphalia is to inherit Laschet as the father of the state.