CDU Chairman Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, and the Green group Chairman Katrin Göring-Eckardt have shown in a joint Interview open to a black-green Alliance. “We can each other well. We live in a time in which there is no natural coalition partner. We have to be ready to discuss,” says Kramp-Karrenbauer, the “picture on Sunday”.
Göring-Eckardt sees in the Alliance of Greens and the Union is a Chance for Germany: “That Green and Union are in the political spectrum further and further apart as the SPD and the Union, could be good for the country because it leads to more cohesion. Because the citizens see If they can agree on something, it may work better our country.” Kramp-Karrenbauer stressed: “The crucial question is always: Can communicate with different partners in government on a joint project. I see that as very pragmatic.” You, yourself, have ruled in the Saarland “with an absolute majority, the Greens, the FDP and the SPD”.
women’s quota as a necessary means
The two politicians spoke out in an Interview, also once again for a women’s quota in politics. The Green group Chairman Katrin Göring-Eckardt holds such a law for the Bundestag is essential: “If the Bundestag should represent the people, must be half women. We need a law for an equal number of women and men in the Bundestag. Kramp-Karrenbauer said: “It takes in all cases a quota for women in the CDU, the works.” However, the quota have their limits: “Many of the mandates are gained directly from the circles, because a quoted list is of use to nothing.” In the CDU you to think therefore, and, in particular, the proportion of women in the Direct constituencies, as well as to increase the party members, said Kramp-Karrenbauer: “only 27 percent are women, and we want to improve.”
According to the articles of Association of the CDU women should be “involved in party offices of CDU and public mandates at least one third”.
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Kramp-Karrenbauer defendant as in the past, the low proportion of female member of the Federal Parliament and suggested, once again, a link to the necessary electoral reform, with an increase in the share of Women – without, however, directly for a parity law. “Everyone agrees that we need Reform to prevent a further Increase of the Parliament. But we have the Problem of the low percentage of Women. You can’t just ignore.“ (Reuters, dpa)