Rhein-Sieg district –
The district party conference of the CDU was an evening of surprises. The biggest was how clearly the new chairman Oliver Krauss prevailed against his rival. Everyone who expected a competition between the left and right side of the Rhine party branches of the CDU were taught better.
Apparently the candidate won through, and the members expect him to be able to stop the downward trend of the CDU in the region by focusing on the issues that currently affect society the most.
The “Jung vom Buurehoff” is not progressive enough for the CDU
The clear defeat of Björn Franken is also a signal that the CDU Rhein-Sieg wants to position itself much more progressively by the local and federal elections in 2025 at the latest than the “Jung vom Buurehoff”, as the Ruppichterother called himself in his introductory speech.
Franconia’s statements about minorities, which in his opinion took up an inappropriately broad space in the public discussion and which allegedly wanted to dictate to the majority of society how it should think, and his commitment to the family, to the house builders and to a law-and- Order politics are clearly not enough to get to the top of the German CDU district association with the largest number of members. With that he served the core clientele. This will probably not open up new circles of voters or even members.
One of the big surprises of the evening was that Katharina Gebauer was unable to assert herself again as Vice-Chair. The fact that the woman from Troisdorf was voted out of office, who is considered a political lightweight by many party friends, is nothing less than a resounding political slap in the face. That is a heavy burden both for her renewed candidacy for the state parliament and for her office as chairwoman of the Troisdorf city council group.
Last but not least, the simplicity of some of the arguments used by the former district chairwoman to explain the declining support of the CDU in the electorate is also surprising: It is the ignorant and ungrateful citizens of Cologne and Bonn who are looking for affordable housing in the Rhine Draw a circle of victories, but do not honor the CDU’s services in the region in elections. A serious reappraisal of the problems that the CDU has quite obviously not only in the Rhein-Sieg district looks different. Maybe Oliver Krauss has a clearer view of reality.
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