The Federal Chancellery has lost the CDU.
She is still looking for reasons for her defeat.
One suggestion from the party is: Change the name.
Is it still up-to-date that people still call themselves the Christian Democratic Union in view of the increasing secularization of the population?
Has the CDU already arrived in opposition
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and is she facing a self-mutilation of the kind that the SPD has endured for a long time?
Timo Steppat
Editor in Politics.
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But the time for self-reflection is limited.
Because very soon there is a lot at stake for the party.
Saarland will vote in two months, a first mood test.
Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia will follow in May.
In all three countries, the CDU is the prime minister.
What if she loses?
We'll take you to a CDU regulars' table to feel the pulse of the party, talk to Parliamentary Secretary Thorsten Frei about arriving in the opposition, and discuss with political scientist Thomas Biebrich whether the new party leader Friedrich Merz supports the CDU moves to the right.
Cologne MP Serap Güler says what the C in CDU means to her
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and what the party might do in the future.
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