has Anyone read the press release for the re-election of Kai Wegner’s as the Chairman of the CDU-Spandau, you guessed it. “We have to want to take over as the CDU’s responsibility”, Wegner explains, after it had confirmed last Saturday the delegates with 98.4 percent of the votes for the seventh Time, as a result of in the office.
three days later, it is clear how seriously Wegner, a former CDU General Secretary and currently one of the four Deputy country Manager, Monika Grütters, said this sentence. If on 18. In may the national Congress of the CDU comes to the election of the national Executive, wants to run Wegner for the presidency and Grütters out of the office push.
Grütters office since 2006
she had been elected in December of 2016, with 78.4 percent of the votes to the Chairman of the Berlin CDU. Before the election, according to media designated counterparty Wegner had commented on her candidacy with the words: “you will be happy and we also look forward to.” With the joy and friendship within the CDU, and between Grütters and Wegner, it was over quickly.
Astonished faces there were, therefore, as both of them were almost a week ago, on the edge of a CDU regional conference in Pankow harmony. Frank, you talked about a Meeting in a Bar near Nollendorfplatz – such a common round, it should have multiple. What had the two discuss with each other and whether the upcoming Board election had played a role, not betrayed you.
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artifact order: In the ranks of the old, self-confident men like Kai Wegner, Frank Steffel, or Frank Henkel, Berlin’s CDU-dominated, had the subtle Grütters from the beginning. The personnel Burkard Dregger provided in addition to the positioning of Stefan Evers in the office of the Secretary-General. Had been recruited in 2010, of Grütters for the Association.
Wegner wants to be brought back into the Bundestag
Its also initiated by her election to the parliamentary leader for the spinning of intrigue, well-known party friends final against Grütters. Dregger fights since he took office in the summer of 2018 with internal opponents, and since the Override by own faction in the debate over a Committee of inquiry on the case of Hubertus Knabe severely damaged.
Why Wegner would now like to take over the country’s presidency is clear: He is a man of power. His ambition is to get back into the Bundestag. And as a country Manager, he has the right of access to a secure place on the list. His candidacy, in turn, many reminiscent of a Berlin CDU, in the Power and machinations were more important than the closed appearance and political success.
A woman from the party even speaks of the threat of a “Rollback”, driven by the “old men” in the CDU. From Monika Grütters, initiated the Opening of the party would not remain after the change of power much to be desired, so the fear of many CDUlern.
intimidation and threats
And actually, the processes around the replacement of the long-term Reinickendorfer district Chairman Frank Steffel to get a taste of what could be in store for the party as a whole. After the loss of his doctoral title, badly damaged Steffel had been forced to retreat, threatened to the preparation of the personnel panel for a new circuit Board to tear under Steffels successor to Frank Balzer of the Association.
Because of alleged irregularities in the election of delegates for the state Convention has been challenged, it should also try in the run-up to intimidation and open-ended threats with the end of his political career.
Open-will go out in two months, the upcoming election, should, in fact, compete in both candidates. While Grütters, said on Tuesday, “of course,” stand-in-law, Wegner. Also the circle Chairman, there was Silence: no one wanted to openly take on the upcoming fight candidacy position.
Behind closed doors it was said that the candidacy had been Wegner’s “foreseeable”. Grütters have applied, especially with their lack of connection to the chamber of deputies group of many, your passion for the regional policy of Berlin is missing. Wegner, in contrast, had been in the past few weeks, “everywhere and nowhere”, have hardly missed an event, and seen everywhere.
Some do not see Wegner already as a winner
Others are there so be careful, but see Wegner already as the winner. Uwe Schmidt, Chairman of the senior citizens Union in Berlin, and even 15 years as a member of the house of representatives, said: “I don’t think he has too bad of chances.” The candidacy of Wegner’s, he commented with the words: “We are holding a lively party.”
it will be interesting in the coming weeks, pending the election of the circuit boards and thus of the delegates ‘ lists for the national Congress to develop. In nine of the 12 district organizations elections are imminent, you decide on the power ratio of the bearing in the elections on 18. May. A reference to the fact that the Grütters-crumbling warehouse, a view of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. There is a bad result threatens the President of the circle-in-chief, Monika Grütters-man Stefan Evers,.
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