Respectfully, but without enthusiasm. The Union group has received the new CDU leader, Kramp-Karrenbauer. With the defeat of Merz not be able to settle for many.
Shortly after the beginning of the Meeting is to hear through the closed doors of strong applause immediately before Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer was gone from the Elevator in the direction of group of room. “Good day, applause – and then we moved on to the agenda,” says Ulrich Lange, Deputy parliamentary leader of the CSU, the debut of the new party boss. The mood was good.
And Merz? “If the CSU’ler according to the spirit of Friedrich Merz, the questions, the blowing at us now, not in this Form. But the issue of Merz, is of course in some Form on the Agenda, this should also be clear,” says Long.
The losing counterparty Kramp-Karrenbauer, Friedrich Merz, mourn in the Union group, yet many of the politicians afterwards.
“many are disappointed”
About Merz is a lot of talk in the CDU. Kramp-Karrenbauer want to speak with him, add it, whatever. In the party leadership of Losing not wanted. In Hamburg, he would have been guaranteed to be elected. Carsten Linnemann, the head of the SME Association of the Union, has campaigned in recent weeks for Merz as a party chief. “It was like a football game, which is just assumed in the last Minute,” he says. “Many are still disappointed […], but the group congratulated closed.”
Closed, so a common word currently in the CDU. To the Disappointed pick up, must Kramp-Karrenbauer include the topics of Merz, says Linnemann – economic policy, and Migration. “I know that Mrs Kramp-Karrenbauer also thinks in a similar way. That we may no longer be the only government party in the truest sense of the word. But we need to distinguish ourselves. The content of the government work. As harsh as this sounds, it must come now.”
And also Merz, you should get a lot of say. About the Berlin MP Jan-Marco Luczak: “I believe that we in the CDU in total, there is a great openness to him. In any function, you have to see then. What is important is that he is, and will remain on Board.”
