The Christian Democrats want to be the strongest force in Berlin. That is the claim. They have had the candidate, Kai Wegner, for a long time, but the Berlin CDU still lacks a proper election program. The Berliners should now help: “We want a broad dialogue for our election program,” said CDU state chairman Wegner on Friday. “We want to go into the neighborhood.”
To this end, Wegner wants to travel through the districts from next week until the party congress on June 19, at which the program is to be decided. In addition, the CDU has launched a website: Everyone can make their demands on the party and make suggestions on your-Idee.cdu.berlin.
The first contributions sound like this: “The CDU must not abolish the pop-up cycle paths under any circumstances.” Another writes: “It is totally annoying that Berlin leaves Hertha BSC out in the rain when building a new stadium.” The most successful demand so far is wanted “More solidarity and support for the Berlin police”. Leading candidate Wegner promises that all contributions will be viewed and incorporated into the program.
In order to sort them, to weight them and to compare them with the previous internal party program proposals, the CDU has set up a so-called Berlin Advisory Board. The former Hamburg mayor Ole von Beust, who has been advising the capital’s CDU for a long time, will take the chair.
Who else is on the committee that is supposed to “reflect the breadth of urban society”, as Secretary General Stefan Evers put it, could not or did not want to be said at the introduction. The advisory board should work a quiet, said Evers.
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The CDU, Kai Wegner made it clear, sees itself as an alternative to red-red-green. “This coalition divides the city,” said Wegner. The ultimate goal is therefore to replace them. Realistically, this is currently only possible for the CDU with the SPD and its top candidate Franziska Giffey, as well as the FDP.
The Social Democrats were most recently between 18 and 20 percent, the CDU at 17 percent. Would Wegner form a coalition with Giffey despite her resignation and the likely loss of a doctorate? “What we are currently experiencing is of no use to Berlin as a location for science,” said Wegner. “I do not take part in discussions about personal stories.”
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