Vman marriages fail when the children leave the house. On the one hand, it’s great: finally time for each other. On the other hand unpleasant: What do you do with the time, what do you still have to say to each other? The CDU feels the same way. She has less to do now because she no longer rules. She is suddenly thrown back on herself. What party does she want to be, with whom, why? A year after the federal elections, she is still in the middle of a crisis of meaning, or as Carsten Linnemann puts it, her optimistic therapist: “We’re on the right track, but we haven’t reached our goal yet.”
Linnemann watches over the new basic program, which is to be created by 2024. Before we get to the answers, let’s first talk about the questions. After all, therapy takes time. It was “sparsely populated here and there in terms of content,” he recently found. Where there is not much, there is space for something new, a new “great story for the CDU”, as Linnemann enthusiastically says. The party needs a signature tune that makes people say: “I vote for the party! The new CDU can have a future.”