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Berlin (AP) - Before the election of the new CDU boss, the previous party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer speaks about the requirements that the office demands.
According to Kramp-Karrenbauer, the future CDU chairman must be able to handle responsibility.
“The CDU, like hardly any other party, has the claim: We want to govern.
In the CDU, therefore, a very important point is how someone deals with responsibility, ”said the defense minister of the“ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ”.
All three candidates had a "desire for responsibility" and also "the ability to do so."
Kramp-Karrenbauer's successor will be elected at a digital party congress next weekend.
North Rhine-Westphalia Prime Minister Armin Laschet, the former Union parliamentary group leader Friedrich Merz and foreign politician Norbert Röttgen are available for election.
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Kramp-Karrenbauer still does not want to make an election recommendation, as she told the German Press Agency: "When it comes to the election of the new party chairman, I was and will remain neutral."
There was a fair competition with three very good candidates.
"I'm looking forward to a good cooperation with the new CDU party chairman, whom the delegates will elect on Saturday."
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