The boy in Angela Merkel’s CDU hoping for much from the new party Chairman. Some believe the most likely the oldest candidate. DW-reporter Marina Strauss was at a JU-Meet.
Even Angela Merkel in Gold hangs in a frame on the wall in a dark blue Blazer with a slight Smile on the lips, next to her, Klaus-Dieter of the city councillor, CDU Bundestag Deputy from the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district, a middle-class district in West Berlin. It is a photo of other times. As the Still-CDU party Chairman, who was Still Chancellor still firmly in the saddle of your party.
Philipp dill man assumes that Merkel will not stay until 2021 Chancellor
Now it is jerky but duly and Merkel could bring down even before they reached the finish line of your fourth book. Here at the weekly of the young Union of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf Meeting, the youth organization of Merkel’s CDU, mourns but none of the old times, really. Riser is the keyword. And the dawn of a create that is three times as old as the assembled JUler in the room: Friedrich Merz. At least when it comes to the Chairman Philipp dill man. Blonde short hair, gray hooded sweatshirt in the University of Potsdam, and a voice that sounds older than his 20 years. Merz had not remained in the past, he’ll bring a fresh Wind in the party and promise a credible renewal, says the business management Student. “It shows that the CDU can also, unlike Merkel,” agreed 15-year-old Ben Lanz of him. “Merz embodies the time before Merkel and we miss the people who don’t choose CDU.”
Kramp-Karrenbauer is in the polls at the front
At the CDU party Congress in early December, 1001, delegates will vote on who to replace Angela Merkel as party Chairman, and possibly the next Chancellor will be. As the most promising candidate of the CDU are valid, General Secretary Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Minister of health, Jens Spahn, and also Friedrich Merz, a former CDU/CSU parliamentary group Chairman of Merkel’s rival, wants to start after ten years in business, a third life of the policy. According to the present Germany trend Kramp-karrenbauer was able to convince the CDU-supporters the most. Almost half would vote for you, a third for Merz and only 12 percent for Spahn.
Philip Amthor calls Zukunftsmut and debate the culture of his party
The recent CDU MP Philipp Amthor attests to the party’s base, a great enthusiasm for Friedrich Merz. He also speaks of a departure signal. Because of the most up-not “as desired”. In Merz, the question is, what is myth, what is reality. “He has the advantage, that he had to prove ten years in the policy, but it’s still in Today.”
That Merz was after his retirement from politics in a firm and 2016 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the German branch of Blackrock, the largest asset managers in the world, took over, interferes with Amthor as a young CDU members of: Mark captain, Chairman of the young group of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag. Blackrock is said to have made with the tax tricks of crooked shops, but a few years before Merz office. For Merz, the allegation was in any way problematic, captain. There is no temporal Overlap and the accusations were a deliberate attempt to discredit the candidate.
“Each of the top, must engage the critics”
The extent to which Blackrock “what was Bad”, you have to see, says a CDU member, author and entrepreneur Diana Kinnert. Also, if Merz’s activities were immoral. But: “It is a pity that someone who earns millions, is seen in Germany, so critical.” This was in the UK about different. At the Moment it relies on Merz: it you to trust that he can make the German economy for decades to come fit. He believe in markets, cross-border and non-nationalist, for example, as regards environmental and climate policy.
Diana Kinnert looking for new questions, instead of modern answers to old questions
Whoever’s at the end of the race, Kinnert, Amthor and captain are agreed that the CDU can only be strong when it unites politicians of the calibre Kramp-karrenbauer, Spahn and Merz at the same time. Everyone who is at the very top, should understand the need to integrate other wing and critic, says Kinnert.
In the case of the JU Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, the official part of the Evening begins with the presentation of a former Colonel in the Bundeswehr. The German security policy, a topic with many sub-topics, this many moves: Internal security, the strengthening of the police, but also digitization and technology.
The young CDU members and politicians expect a reply – especially from the new party Chairman. Here in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, you are all too young to be able to add to the time before Angela Merkel aware of the recall. Yes, an Era going to end, say some, but then the word riser falls. One of two women in the room, looking thoughtful. Kristina Oganesyan, can not imagine a man as Chancellor. You would prefer it if in the future Kramp-Karrenbauer Annegret from the Golden frame of the JU-I would enjoy Meeting.