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The Italian newspaper “La Repubblica” recognizes “Italian conditions” in Germany:
“It is not the economic indicators that make Germany comparable to Italy: it takes a lot more than that. There is a new political weakness in Berlin. (…) Angela Merkel did not manage to get Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer through after a typical power game: First you hesitate to build a trustworthy successor, and when you finally decide, you no longer have enough strength to enforce and defend him , (…) It is the image of an unstable Germany , which above all is no longer built around Christian Democratic “centrism”, but is torn apart by an escape to extremes. At the moment the grand coalition is still holding. But for how long? The question concerns everyone who thinks Berlin is essential for the European project. ” (AP)
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Wanderwitz: CDU incompatibility with leftists in the federal and state governments is out of the question
The future Federal Government Commissioner for the East, Marco Wanderwitz (CDU),
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The London Financial Times warns of long discussions in the CDU: Europe needs Germany:
“The CDU is now facing another struggle for its future between those who advocate continuing Angela Merkel’s course and those who are pushing for more robust conservatism. (…) A longer phase of German political self-reflection poses greater risks. The multilateral system has been destabilized by US President Donald Trump and Brexit as well as by the advance of populist nationalism – not only in the newer EU member states in the ex-communist east, but also in several older, western member states.
France ’s energetic President Emmanuel Macron may welcome the opportunity to draw the limelight. But without a powerful partner in Berlin he will have a hard time. It is therefore of crucial importance not only for Germany , but for all of Europe that the CDU emerge from its conscience strengthened and with an equal successor to Merkel. “ (AP)
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Stahlknecht: Don’t give up the demarcation from the Left Party and AfD
Saxony-Anhalt’s CDU chief Holger Stahlknecht is against it, with a view toworld of workKeeping distance means: no coalition and no minority government that . “
TheIf we don’t keep our distance from them, the CDU runs the risk
Most recently, Saxony-Anhalt’s CDU parliamentary group had Lars-Jörn Zimmer
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Merz urges “decent” candidate searches for CDU chairmanship
The CDU politician Friedrich Merz has warned his party in the search for a new chairman against personnel feuds. During a performance at the annual reception of the CDU Economic Council of Saxony-Anhalt in Magdeburg, the former head of the Union faction, who is considered a contender for the party leadership, at the same time kept a low profile regarding his own ambitions for the successor of Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. The CDU leader had given up the Chancellor candidacy on Monday and announced the withdrawal from the party presidency as soon as the K question has been resolved.
Merz, who was inferior to Kramp-Karrenbauer in the race for CDU chairmanship in 2018, emphasized about the search for candidates: “I want us to be fair in a decent manner. And I will help to ensure that this decent form is maintained. “Later he emphasized:” Let me close with the remark that I also want to make a contribution personally. “He wants to make every effort,” this contribution so to fail to ensure that the unity and unity of the Union, in particular the CDU, is not jeopardized. ”At the same time, he warned that the CDU should“ keep the nerve to discuss these issues in detail beyond personnel issues. ”
Merz thinks “nothing at all” of a membership decision. Looking at the month-long search for candidates for the SPD chairmanship, Merz warned: “See what comes out of it. Is that a good role model for the CDU? I strongly advise against it. “
At the same time, he repeated his position that the majority of AfD voters could be won back because they were primarily protest voters. At the same time, he urged a clear demarcation from the AfD. “At no time should there be any doubt that the Christian Democratic Union of Germany has no willingness, in whatever form, to work with the enemies of our democracy.” (Dpa)
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NRW regional group leader Krings warns of a quick personnel decision
The head of the North Rhine-Westphalian CDU state group in the Bundestag, Günter Krings, has advised against the premature resignation of party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer against an early election. “We shouldn’t let ourselves go when looking for the next CDU leader,” he told Rheinische Post (Wednesday).
“If the new one is determined early on, the next pressure will arise, as he is cooperating with the Chancellor, because she was elected for a full four years,” said Krings, who is also State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The CDU is also expected to act responsibly in a new personnel structure. “It would not be fitting to work towards early elections.”
Kramp-Karrenbauer had announced on Monday that he would not be a candidate for Chancellor and announced that he would also give up the CDU chairmanship. However, it wants to adhere to the agreed timetable: it only provides for a decision on the chancellor’s candidacy in December. (AP)
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“New elections possible”
The CDU interior politician Armin Schuster does not rule out that the change at the top of the CDU leads to an early federal election. In a conversation with the ARD capital studio on Tuesday evening, Schuster made it clear that the future candidate for chancellor should be in charge. “Whether he or she then runs in parallel with the Chancellor for a year and a half or not, he has to decide. And that would be an important change compared to now. If he decided that this separation would not work well, it could also mean that we would run faster for elections, ”said the CDU member of the Bundestag. (AP)
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I want us to do it in a decent manner. And
Friedrich Merz on the CDU candidate search
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Merz rejects membership decision on CDU leadershipThe former Union faction leader Friedrich Merz does not want to regulate the successor of Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer at the CDU leadership by a member decision. “I don’t think anything of it,” said Merz on Tuesday evening at the annual reception of the Economic Council of the CDU Saxony-Anhalt in Magdeburg. “We can interview members, but we have bodies to make a decision. We have committees for that.” Merz himself ran against Kramp-Karrenbauer in 2018 and is now being traded as her successor. At the event of the Economic Council, many visitors expressed their wish that Merz may run – but did not respond to this. (AP)
“We are no longer a People’s Party”
Merz also warned his party to restore the character of a people’s party. That reports the “picture”. “We have to integrate from the edges into the middle. There is an opportunity for the CDU to restore the character of a people’s party – not to maintain it, because we are no longer. We could do it as the great integrative force of the center. We have to talk about values, topics and content in such a way that people have the feeling that there is a serious discussion going on, ”the newspaper quotes him.
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Merz warns of the AfD The CDU politician Friedrich Merz has warned against in
the debate about the AfD to relativize fascism. “Erfurt is not Weimar, ”said the 64-year-old on Tuesday in Magdeburg with a view to the Situation in Thuringia. The inflationary use of the term fascism in
Relation to the AfD relativize what in Germany with this term connected. “It is still true that we are dealing with anti-democratic, völkisch, partly openly anti-Semitic representatives have to do. “Certain
Merz also drew parallels to the Nazi era. The AfD
play with democracy, just like the Nazis did have. That was also seen in the Erfurt state parliament. (AP)
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Söder warns CDU against break with era Merkel CSU chief Markus Söder has warned the CDU after the announced withdrawal of party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer against a “total break with the Merkel era”. Söder also spoke out in the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” (Wednesday) against the early withdrawal of Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU). “That would be wrong. Germany needs a stable government with an internationally respected chancellor, ”warned the Bavarian Prime Minister.
Söder urged everyone in the Union to “put aside their personal vanities” on the candidate question. In the CDU, it was necessary to weigh up “who is trusted to have the greatest integration power”. “If you don’t manage to hold the CDU together, you won’t develop any integration power for Germany .” For the Union, “it’s all or nothing”. The situation is “much more serious than at the time of the donation affair”. (AP)
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Merkel warns the CDU to differentiate it from the AfD
Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) attacked the AfD hard and accused the party of wanting to undermine democracy. “The AfD has a very clear agenda,” said Merkel on Tuesday, according to participants in the meeting of the Union group. “And this agenda is also a particular challenge for us, especially when it comes to the CDU, because it is very clear that democracy is to be destroyed. (…) That you want to undermine them. ”You experience this in every session of the Bundestag.
The AfD argue that a turnaround 2.0 is needed. That means what exist today as a free democratic state, nothing else than the elites of yore. “If you don’t oppose that, then you will
also the victim of this argument. And that’s why we have to do it with all our might do, ”Merkel demanded from her party. (AP)
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You can see in the UK what is out of referendums and the whim of the
Friedrich Merz
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Laschet: Unity within the CDU is more important than ever
CDU Vice Armin Laschet has warned his party against thinking backwards and a “longing for the good old days”. “Some say they want a CDU like under Helmut Kohl,” said Laschet of the “Rheinische Post”. However, Kohl in particular “changed the country more than any chancellor afterwards”.
Laschet cited the abolition of the D-Mark in connection with the introduction of the euro and the opening of the borders to European neighbors as examples. “It was not Angela Merkel, it was Helmut Kohl,” reminded the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia and possible candidate for the CDU party chair. For him, being conservative is: “Preserving good things and being open to new things.”
With regard to the open leadership question in the CDU after the announced withdrawal of party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Laschet warned to unity. “The unity within the CDU and the cohesion with the CSU are now more important than ever,” he said.
Laschet left open the question of whether he would apply for the chancellor candidacy and the CDU party chairmanship. “Nobody knows what the future holds,” he said. “There are different times and positions in politics in which you can be given responsibility and shape things.” In addition to Laschet, former faction leader Friedrich Merz and Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn are considered potential applicants.
When dealing with the AfD, Laschet insisted on a clear demarcation. “In Thuringia, we saw for the first time how a prime minister was elected to his office with the votes of extremists. This situation should never have happened. Extremists must never have any influence on the formation of governments, not in the federal states, not in the federal government, ”said the party deputy.
However, the AfD should not be excluded in parliaments and, for example, must be given access to all information that is also available to other groups. “We will not produce martyrs,” warned Laschet. However, the CDU must remain “a reliable anchor for a defensive democracy”. (AFP)
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Berlin’s CDU boss also calls for quick personnel decisions
Similar to several party colleagues, Berlin’s CDU leader Kai Wegner is now demanding a quick succession solution for Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as party leader. “I think,
The CDU now needs “oneGermany , ”said Wegner. That could not wait until December.
There is
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Merkel warns of the Union’s loss of power
Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned of a loss of power by her party. She spoke at a meeting of the Union faction, according to participants, about the unrest in the CDU over the upcoming personnel decisions. Therefore, it is not natural for the Union to be the next government again after 14 years.
Merkel also said that she shares the demarcation between Kramp-Karrenbauer and Union fraction leader Ralph Brinkhaus from the Left Party. The left never answered the question of whether the GDR was an unjust state.
Merkel again criticized the Thuringian CDU for voting together with the AfD last Wednesday in the election of the FDP politician Thomas Kemmerich as prime minister. “It all happened with an announcement,” participants said.
The Chancellor therefore praised the use of Kramp-Karrenbauer to solve the crisis there – she had worked well with the party leader here. (AP)
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AKK: CDU not under pressure in personnel decision
CDU boss Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has indirectly rejected demands from the CSU for a very quick solution to unresolved personnel issues. The CDU is not under pressure to find a new chairman, she said, according to participants, on Tuesday at the Union faction meeting in Berlin. She was quoted as saying: “We don’t have to worry about it.” (Dpa)
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Norbert Röttgen, CDU foreign policy
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Röttgen: decision before summer break
The CDU foreign politician Norbert Röttgen has also spoken out for a quick decision on the party chairmanship. Röttgen said on Tuesday before a parliamentary group meeting in Berlin: “From the schedule, I think that this has to be decided before the summer break.” He is in favor of there being a party conference before the summer break. Union group vice-president Carsten Linnemann said that he doubted that the party could wait until Christmas. “A faster decision would be good for all of us.”
Röttgen, on the other hand, said: “I believe and I am absolutely certain that we cannot deal with personnel issues for a year now.” He went on to say: “We now need to carefully, but quickly, combine personnel renewal and content-related renewal, you can do not pull endlessly – instead our voters, our members rightly expect our country, leadership and decisions from the CDU and not an endless story. ”(dpa)
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Mützenich: “This coalition is able to work”
SPD parliamentary group leader Rolf Mützenich does not see the coalition endangered by the crisis in the CDU. “This coalition is fit for work and willing to work,” said Mützenich on Tuesday before a parliamentary group meeting in Berlin. Mützenich was reluctant towards the coalition partner: “We are the older party, but that is why I do not want to give advice.” He did not want to make the difficult months of the Union even more difficult. He is optimistic about the next few weeks.
When asked whether Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) would remain in office until next year, Mützenich said: “I wish her every success.” CDU chief Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer had also justified the announcement of her withdrawal with the fact that the existing separation weakness of the party from the chancellorship and party presidency. Mützenich also emphasized that the SPD offers everyone who is concerned about democracy “to be a gathering place for democrats”. (AP)
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AKK admits mistakes in the Thuringian crisis
CDU chief Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has sharply differentiated herself from any cooperation of the Union with AfD or Left Party and admitted mistakes in the Thuringian crisis. There are “individual votes in the party that want to work with the AfD,” she said, according to participants, on Tuesday at the meeting of the Union faction in Berlin. The wall opposite the AfD must remain, however, said Kramp-Karrenbauer accordingly.
It was a mistake to vote together with the AfD in the election of the FDP politician Thomas Kemmerich as Thuringian prime minister. At the same time, Kramp-Karrenbauer demanded that the unrest in the CDU should stop. (AP)
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Several CDU politicians are pushing for a quick decision about party leaders
After the CSU, leading CDU politicians are also emerging a speedy clarification of the leadership question in the federal party. You are thus opposed to the schedule of party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, who plans to clarify the candidate for chancellor and party chairmanship over several months.
Union leader Ralph Brinkhaus warned that it was too long Personnel discussion could overlay the Union’s material work. For the faction there is “the danger that we will now miserably spend a long time debating personnel busy ”- but one wanted to penetrate with material work, said the CDU politicians on Tuesday before a parliamentary group meeting in Berlin. The Union faction is currently meeting, and a lively and detailed debate on the AKK successor is expected.
The regional associations also criticize AKK’s schedule. In view of the state election, the CDU in Rhineland-Palatinate demanded clarification in one year about the new party leadership until summer. “I think the planned December date is too late,” said CDU top candidate Christian Baldauf on Tuesday of the German Press Agency. “Clarity should prevail before the summer break.” The CDU could not afford to keep the leadership question open until the end of the year. “For months we would be primarily concerned with ourselves.” During this time, the urgently needed factual policy would move into the background.
According to the previous plans, the candidate for chancellor should be decided at the CDU party congress in early December, where the regular new election of the party leadership is also planned. So far, Kramp-Karrenbauer sees no need to shake it. The situation has “changed relatively little”, the process of realignment should be controlled “into autumn and into winter”, she said.
The Prime Minister of Hesse Volker Bouffier assumes that the decision will be made faster. “I do not think that we will wait that long, but we will decide that faster,” said the deputy CDU federal chairman on the Hessischer Rundfunk. He declined a member poll on the party chairmanship: “We don’t want to organize the same circus as the Social Democrats. We cannot allow ourselves to spend months on ourselves. “
The Hamburg CDU top candidate Marcus Weinberg advocated that the potential candidates Armin Laschet, Friedrich Merz and Jens Spahn agreed as soon as possible. “We now need a management team that represents the whole party and takes responsibility together,” he told the newspapers of the Funke media group. (AP)
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