The CDU longs for a strong opposition leader

Ralph Brinkhaus and Jens Spahn

One of the most promising candidates for the CDU chairmanship is the newly elected parliamentary group leader Ralph Brinkhaus. Party Vice-President Jens Spahn is also ready.

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Berlin In the CDU there are increasing voices not to flirt with government participation, but to renew the party. “I am now for the opposition,” said the state chairman of the CDU in Bremen, Carsten Meyer-Heder, the Handelsblatt. “Nobody can be conveyed that they want to continue to govern in this state. We have to go through there now. “

Previously, CDU presidium member Michael Kretschmer was the first to speak out in favor of renouncing possible Jamaica negotiations and choosing the opposition role. “Slowly the mind sets in again,” it said in the party. The shock over the historically worst election result in the Union of 24.1 percent is deep.

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