Thursday, November 25, 2021
On the way to the new party leader
Merz gets support from the JU boss
JU boss Kuban wants his youth association to have more “unspent heads in the party leadership” at the Germany Day. In his statement from mid-October, he sees candidate Merz as more of a “supporter”, but now he wants to give him his vote in the race for the office of party leader.
The chairman of the Junge Union, Tilman Kuban, has spoken out in favor of Friedrich Merz as the new CDU party leader. “Personally, like many other JU members, I will vote for Friedrich Merz,” said Kuban of the “Rheinische Post”. Merz stands for clear positions, a new culture of discussion and with Mario Czaja, Christina Stumpp and Carsten Linnemann have put together a strong team that represents the entire breadth of the party.
At the Junge Union’s Germany Day in mid-October, Kuban had not made a clear statement about a Laschet successor. While Merz emphasized that “young brooms” would sweep well, but “the old brush” knew the corners, Kuban pointed out that more than one sentence like this was needed. “Above all, we need more young, unspent heads in the party leadership. Friedrich Merz is a clever person who can certainly also be there as an advisor and supporter,” said Kuban at the time, ntv.
In an interview with the “Rheinische Post”, Kuban asked his party at the same time to forego the CDU’s previously planned presence party congress in January because of the corona situation. He does not believe that such a major event is currently justifiable in view of the current pandemic. “If children cannot go to school again because of Corona, we as the CDU cannot meet over 1000 delegates from all over Germany. We have a role model function,” said the JU boss. Instead, the party congress must take place digitally.
The new CDU leader is to be officially elected at the party congress planned for January 21st and 22nd in Hanover. Before that, for the first time in party history, around 400,000 CDU members will vote in December to fill the top post. In addition to Merz, the CDU member of the Bundestag Norbert Röttgen and the executive minister of the Chancellery, Helge Braun, also applied.