CDU gets to know applicants for the state parliament

Politik in Rheurdt
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CDU gets to know applicants for the state parliament

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The candidates with representatives of the CDU Rheurdt (from left): Stephan Wolters, Robert Peerenboom, Monika Lemmen, Agnes Teilmans, Matthias Wirth and Martin Opdemom.
Photo: Norbert Prümen

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Rheurdt Monika Lemmen, Stephan Wolters and Matthias Wirth introduced themselves to members of the CDU Rheurdt. One of the trio is to run for the state parliament in 2022 as the successor to Margret Vosseler-Deppe in the southern district of Kleve.

The Bundestag will be re-elected in one month. The CDU in the Kleve district hopes that the Christian Democrats can provide the government and the Federal Chancellor. But she is already thinking ahead into the future. There are state elections on May 15, 2022. Three new applicants for the constituency of Kleve I have been on the way for weeks to introduce themselves to the individual communities. The previous candidate Margret Voßeler-Deppe is no longer running. The constituency includes Rheurdt, Geldern, Issum, Kalkar, Kerken, Kevelaer, Straelen, Uedem, Wachtendonk and Weeze. On Wednesday evening Monika Lemmen, Matthias Wirth and Stephan Wolters were guests of the Rheurdter CDU in the hall of the restaurant “Zur Post” and promoted their candidacy.

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Robert Peerenboom, chairman of the CDU community association Rheurdt-Schaephuysen, was pleased about the visit, at which Monika Lemmen was the first to introduce herself. The 52-year-old lives in Straelen, where she grew up in a horticultural business, is an administrative clerk at the Diakonie’s debt counseling service and has two adult sons. She is on the city council and holds the office of deputy mayor. She came to politics because she is involved in the Catholic Church and in various associations and “always wanted to achieve and achieve something with people”.

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Lemmen said she wanted to strengthen schools and volunteer work, reduce bureaucracy for business and citizens, and work for modern agriculture and good medical care. When asked, she mentioned many ideas on how more doctors can be lured to the Lower Rhine, for example low-interest loans for setting up a practice or a new emergency management system so that young doctors are relieved and they have time for their families. A specialization of the hospitals instead of a competitive situation and the introduction of a digital medical record are further ideas for the health care system.

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As a banker, Stephan Wolters from Geldern-Hartefeld has a particular focus on economics and finance. The 54-year-old father of two daughters has headed the CDU city association of Geldern since 2005 and is a member of the district council. He grew up in agriculture and did an agricultural apprenticeship after completing his bank training. His “initial spark” to go into politics was when Helmut Kohl took office in 1982. In economic policy he, like Lemmen, is in favor of less new debt and represents the goal of his party to strive for the “black zero”.

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Wolters is committed to environmental policy and finds it important to look at it together with agriculture and forestry and to leave it in a ministry in North Rhine-Westphalia. “Politics must be suitable for grandchildren” is his credo in order to create the framework for a safe life for future generations as well.

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The third and youngest candidate was 41-year-old Matthias Wirth from Kevelaer. Growing up in the GDR, the time of reunification and the commitment of his parents brought him to politics. The single Catholic studied church music and works as an organ builder. Social and educational policy is particularly close to his heart.

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Wirth is a member of the district council and on the board of the CDA, the CDU’s workers’ organization. He would like to speak for the rural area, for agriculture to gain appreciation and planning security. It is obvious to him that every decision in the future will have to be geared towards climate protection. But he wanted pragmatic decisions and not a policy of scare tactics, said Wirth. For him, the fact that the CDU is increasingly addressing younger people and must use the digital channels in order to remain successful.

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