CDU in Saxony-Anhalt wants to bring party convention forward

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Magdeburg (dpa) - The top of the CDU in Saxony-Anhalt has taken further personnel measures in order to remain capable of acting after the announced withdrawal of its chairman Holger Stahlknecht.

The CDU had already announced on Saturday that the vice-bosses should take over the work, on Sunday the executive state executive discussed further details, according to a message from the evening.

Vice-bosses are Education Minister Marco Tullner, Ex-Finance Minister André Schröder and Heike Brehmer, Member of the Bundestag.

Together with Secretary General Sven Schulze, you are to take over the official business until further notice.

Tullner should be the “first contact person and authorized representative”.

Tullner and Schulze are to represent the CDU in the coalition committee.

Should there be a coalition committee on the subject of the Interstate Broadcasting Treaty in the next few days, Schulze will represent the party.

"These regulations are intended to ensure that the CDU Saxony-Anhalt is capable of business and action until a new state executive is elected," it said.

Depending on the pandemic situation, it is considered to bring forward the state party conference planned for October 2, 2021 with the election of a new CDU state executive.

However, priority would be given to the state representative assemblies planned for January 30, 2021 to compile the state lists for the state and federal elections in 2021.

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Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff (CDU) dismissed Interior Minister Stahlknecht on Friday in response to an unsolicited interview in which Stahlknecht had spoken of the possibility of a minority government.

Stahlknecht also announced his retirement as CDU country chief this Tuesday.

The coalition in Saxony-Anhalt threatens to break apart if the CDU, SPD and Greens do not yet find a common line on how to deal with the state treaty for a higher broadcasting fee in Germany.

The CDU wants to block the increase and has a majority in favor of the opposition AfD.

The SPD and the Greens want to support the State Treaty.