The impression, emphasizes Karin Prien, was wrong. But the impression is. Therefore, the schleswig-Holstein Minister of education annoys me: the impression that the CDU Annegret under the new party leader, Kramp-Karrenbauer is moved to the right. Prien is a co-founder of the “Union center”, a loose grouping of CDU supporters, who had organised themselves in a dispute over Angela Merkel’s refugee course as a counterpoint to the ultra-conservative “values-Union”. Kramp-Karrenbauer was their clear favorite for the party presidency. However, from the point of view of the liberals, something is just wrong.

The foreign policy Roderich Kiesewetter, also a member in the circle, summed up the “Dilemma” the other day, Twitter short: “The liberals in the Union chose #akk, the present course aims to satisfy the ultraconservative camp, pulls the Union from the mid-and … strengthens the Green.” Kiesewetter castle with the yearning exclamation: “Of course, Merkel was already way!”

The “current rate” of about Kramp says cart Builder’s commitment to border closures as a last resort, or the thing with your carnival toilet joke, after the Saar countries of the Left as the right was abused. “Now, these circles have the feeling that you have to have some water,” warns Prien in the “Rheinische Post”.

That is undoubtedly true. To the economy and the enterprising values-Union-chief Alexander Mitsch embrace the New in the Konrad-Adenauer-house. The new JU-chief Tilman Kuban found nothing of it, Merkel is a “Gleichschaltung” of the party to blame. Kramp-Karrenbauer against controls in each of these cases, gently. Kuban took on the edge of the last Board meeting to the chest. The values of the Union, rightly, supported you the other day just what it is – a loud, but tiny, with about 2000 415,000 CDU-members.

reconciliation with herself

However, Kiesewetter your Dilemma correctly, if not quite fully described: After three years of refugee armed, and their narrow victory over the competitors Friedrich Merz reconciliation of the CDU is with yourself – and not just with the Ultras – not the seamless continuation of a Merkel-to have course. The loading and alienated but the Merkel-voters from a diffuse green-liberal-social-democratic center, which elected the Chancellor, although she is a Christian Democrat. And even if a more conservative tone for the three Eastern state elections in the fall could be for the CDU to be useful, as some argue, it can be difficult to get out of the corner to get out.

This is even more important than the Green in the home-style rooms pushing. That Green-chief Robert Habeck is storming the Charts as the most popular politician, shows even more clearly than the constant survey of his party, how successful these attempts are. Survey data is not read so far, that the strong would be at the expense of the Union. On the other hand, the CDU does not have improved values since the change in the party leadership.

The middle-unionists want to know their cries, however, expressly not as an indirect confirmation of the right-jerk-theory suggests, but as an attempt to create a false image straight. “As I have many Christian have stressed the Democrats from the environment of the Union, the center is always that there is no shift to the right in the CDU,” says Prien. “I am fully behind AKK, there’s nothing to shake.”

Occasional criticism in the case should not be with pleasure to a weakening of the Boss confused, “such as that of the SPD,” says the Minister. Your only is it important that the “focus on the center of the company” remain as “the core of bourgeois policy” and goal of the CDU visible.

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AKK loses the consent of The conservative course of the CDU voters scare

Stephan-Andreas Casdorff

How better to succeed, to be discussed at a Meeting of some like-minded people on Friday in Berlin. So far, the “Union of the center” exists only as a Twitter and Facebook Community. Your adversaries are organized firmer. The value of the Union not only sends a conveyor belt of press releases, but had at the CDU party conference a Stand – even if only in the Foyer somewhere between VW and the Post.