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Top committees discuss renewal process
Ahead of deliberations by the CDU’s top committees this morning, the Junge Union is again urging greater involvement of the party’s rank and file in the upcoming renewal process. “We must already see that our members have become much more self-confident today than was perhaps the case a few years ago,” JU chairman Tilman Kuban told broadcaster rbb.
This gives rise to “naturally also a desire to have a say in decision-making and not just to discuss and talk about it,” Kuban continued. “And we already have to meet this desire if we want to be a modern people’s party in the end and if we want to be attractive for new members, especially young members.”
A binding membership vote on the successor to party leader Armin Laschet is not absolutely necessary for this, Kuban added. A member poll is also possible, the result of which would then be given to delegates at a party conference, he said. “There, I think we can find good ways together,” Kuban expressed optimism.
CDU presidium and executive board will discuss in the morning about the personnel and substantive reorganization of the party after the defeat in the Bundestag election. Laschet has offered his resignation, but wants to moderate the transition process. He wants to submit a plan for a special party congress to the top committees, at which the party leadership could be re-staffed. As a goal, Laschet states “that we make a fresh start with new personalities.”
by Tobias Schwarz