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Berlin (dpa) - The chairman of the Junge Union, Tilman Kuban, is promoting the election of the new CDU party leader as planned in mid-January, despite the worsening Corona situation.

Another postponement would be "window dressing" and could not be done with the Junge Union, he told the "Rheinische Post" (Monday).

The pandemic shows that no one can predict the situation in four or eight weeks.

At the same time, it is clear to everyone that a low-contact, digital format is needed for the party congress.

The latest federal-state resolutions on a hard lockdown would not have changed anything.

The applicants for the successor to Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer are ex-Union parliamentary group leader Friedrich Merz, NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet and the foreign expert Norbert Röttgen.

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The CDU leadership decides today on the course of the party congress.

General Secretary Paul Ziemiak has prepared variants for this - an almost completely digital party congress and a hybrid meeting at which the 1001 delegates would meet at 10 to 20 locations across Germany.

A digital convention would mean that delegates follow the speeches at home on their computers and then vote digitally.

Confirmation of the election in paper form would then be necessary in order to make the vote legally secure.

Friedrich Merz confirmed on Sunday evening in the ARD “Report from Berlin” that the procedure would be legally possible.

"It's technical, in my opinion it's also legal," said Merz on Sunday evening in the ARD "report from Berlin".

That has really been checked up and down.

Kuban said: "Precisely because fighting the pandemic needs the full attention of the CDU as a ruling party, we must finally clarify our leadership question in mid-January."

The Junge Union has shown that you can elect a new board in conformity with the corona.

"We are now happy to support the party with our know-how," he added.

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With a view to the free choice of a Union Chancellor candidate, Kuban spoke out in favor of a much later date: “In the super election year, we should first concentrate on the state elections in Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate with a strong party leadership.

The question of who has the best chances for us as a Union in this federal election should then be answered together with the CSU.

I'm fully with Wolfgang Schäuble and Markus Söder. "

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