Laschet farewell – no apartment, but flowers – domestic policy

As a farewell, NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU) received another five minutes of standing ovation from his regional association.

“I wish you, I wish the CDU North Rhine-Westphalia, I wish our country God’s blessings and ‘good luck!’ for a good future. All the best, ”Laschet said at the end of his speech at the state party conference in Bielefeld.

It was his last as head of the NRW CDU. Shortly thereafter, Hendrik Wüst (46) was elected as his successor with 98 percent unopposed candidate.

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It is the autumn of power for the ex-Union Chancellor candidate, who is now also the ex-CDU head of his home country and will become ex-prime minister in the Düsseldorf state parliament next Wednesday.

A farewell by installments, which Laschet took outwardly and yet also completed with a crying eye. Prime Minister, father of the country, he was already very happy to be, he admits in a small circle.

When they sat together on Thursday evening at the annual Prime Minister’s Conference in the noble ambience of the Redoute in the federal government’s guest house on Bonn’s Petersberg, Berlin’s outgoing Mayor Michael Müller (56, SPD) gave a moving eulogy for Laschet and his ability to work in a team. Participants report that he was visibly moved by the speech. Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder (54, CSU) has also held back a lot.

On Monday he submitted his resignation to the President of the State Parliament. The previous NRW Transport Minister Wüst will be elected as the new head of government on Wednesday.

Laschet is then only a member of the Bundestag. He is particularly pleased that he can take over the former parliamentary office of Peter Hintze († 66), who always supported and encouraged him and who was his closest friend in politics until his death.

Laschet also has to look for an apartment in Berlin. His most important employees, Head of State Chancellery Nathanael Liminski (36, CDU) and spokesman Christian Wiermer (39), are staying in Düsseldorf, and the communications advisor from the election campaign, Tanit Koch, is no longer on board.

In the Bundestag, Laschet then rejoins the “94 group” with whom he entered parliament for the first time in 1994: Norbert Röttgen, Hermann Gröhe, Friedrich Merz. At that time Ronald Pofalla, Wolfgang Bosbach and Peter Altmaier also belonged to the small group of young and wild ones who later met with the Greens for the “Pizza Connection”. Pale colored memories in the fall of power.

After all: Armin Laschet remains CDU chief for a while. Because he does not want to become anything anymore, he is considered a good mediator for his own successor and will lead the conference of CDU district chairmen next Saturday, which should point the way to the new chairman.

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