As Frank Steffel presented to the members of the circle Association for the last Time as Chairman, he is looking back. Back in those time, in the Reinickendorfer CDU as “deeply questionable, destructive, self-employed bunch” was, “Involved not with each other, but a bad one above the other languages”. “Dispute paralyzes, dispute, bored, armed annoys and harms,” added Steffel and all of a sudden, it is unclear whether his words apply to the year in 1986 – at that time, Steffel was elected for the first time in the circuit Board of the reinickendorfer CDU – or the past few weeks.
the dispute had existed in Steffel, for his unity, well-known district Association last enough. Over the guide price of the outgoing Chairman, the critics accused the Association only from the Bundestag office.
On its designated successor, Frank Balzer, Steffel to retreat pushed. And about the compilation of the new circuit Board, the staff, the tableau was found on the Morning of the circle party day on the last Friday of the consent of all the Chapter chairmen. “A lot of conversations and a lot of good will” were needed to form this “construct,” admitted Balzer. At the end of everything – in spite of hectic discussions behind the Scenes as planned. Balzer, a new man at the top, had prevailed.
Steffel winds up in the delegate election on rank 37
feel What that means for the balance of forces within the district Association, got Steffel on the same evening. After him, the to the last seat filled room had flattered in his speech with standing applause, he experienced a few hours later, a severe defeat.
the election of the delegates for the state Convention of the CDU Steffel landed only at rank 37. Since the circle Association represents 30 of the delegates, the event will be held on 18. May, in all likelihood, without Steffel take place.
other the Steffel-storage allocated to representatives of non-landed among the first 30 places, such as the members of Tim Zeelen and Jürn Jakob Schultze-Berndt and Frank Steffels brother Dirk. The conclusion is clear: The Steffel-camp was voted out, in the truest sense of the word.
“For his merits he should have been on one of the first places to land”
The reactions to it were mixed. “It is not good Manners to do so. For his merits he should have been on one of the first places to land,“ says one, who knows the district Association at least as good as Steffel. Another evaluates the result as an indication that Balzer has the circle Association “behind United and the new strong man in the CDU Reinickendorf”.
others Again speak of a “change of mood”, the have broken on this track. “A successful evening. A new beginning,“ writes one whose pity for Steffel. To stand with your own name, in his opinion, he does not want to – like all the others – better.
Steffel itself, had justified his departure from the district chair with the double burden of the Bundestag mandate, and ice hockey-volunteer, took it sporty. “I’m a Realist and did not expect gratitude in politics, this is just like that. In politics there is no gratitude,“ he said.
raised To the power shift within the circle Association, said Steffel: “This whole camp-Thinking is foreign to me. I would like to, that we are a warehouse and not with us.“
the Latter is not likely to be with a view to 2021, and the elections to the chamber of deputies, as well as to the Bundestag. At the latest, then it comes to the coveted mandates, the Zeelen Punishment of the two members and Schultze-Berndt announces changes. It is questionable whether Steffel is with its reminder: “elections, we can only win if the opponent is outside of its own ranks. Armed deters people. I assume that all the knowledge.“
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