Tuesday, November 16, 2021
No vote from the district executive
Buder fails to apply for CDU chairmanship
A few hours after her application for the CDU chief position was announced, Sabine Buder’s name is out of the running again. The district board of Märkisch-Oderland refused the Brandenburg local politician the nomination.
The Brandenburg woman wanted to take on Friedrich Merz and Co. – but Sabine Buder’s application for chairmanship of the federal CDU has failed. With seven votes against, two abstentions and four votes in favor, the 13-member district executive of Märkisch-Oderland spoke out against a nomination of the former Bundestag candidate in a digital meeting. The district chairwoman Kristy Augustin announced. Ten members took part in the meeting, and the votes of the remaining district board members had been submitted to her in writing.
So there is still no woman as an applicant for the office of CDU federal chairman. The former leader of the Bundestag parliamentary group, Friedrich Merz, presented his team for the federal chairmanship in Berlin today. Previously, the former Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen and Chancellery Minister Helge Braun had thrown their hat into the ring. The application deadline for further candidates to succeed the chairman Armin Laschet, who had failed after less than a year, runs until 6:00 p.m. this Wednesday. Then proposals must be submitted in writing to the CDU federal office.
Buder – a veterinarian and mother of four – had previously told “Spiegel” that she thought all three candidates were suitable. Nevertheless, she also wants to show that there are women who are ready to take on responsibility. The 37-year-old had achieved the best result of the Brandenburg direct candidates of the CDU in the federal election with 23.4 percent. Your party had achieved a historically low election result in Brandenburg with 15.3 percent.