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Düsseldorf (AP) - In the race for the CDU chairmanship, NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet expects good chances in the team with Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn.

«We decided together for this list.

There are very many who clearly support the team as it is set up.

That strengthens us, ”said Laschet to the editorial network Germany (RND / Wednesday).

In the past weeks and months the call had repeatedly risen within the CDU that Spahn should run for the party chairmanship himself.

However, the Minister of Health has ruled this out again and again.

«In February I decided to join the team with Armin Laschet, with him as a candidate for the chair.

That applies, ”he said last week to the“ Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung ”.

Laschet defended his line in the fight for the CDU chairmanship.

Spahn and him are currently primarily concerned with getting the country through the corona pandemic through government action.

“PR gags would be inappropriate,” he said to criticism that he aroused too little enthusiasm.

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Like Spahn, Laschet is in favor of not appointing the Union's candidate for chancellor until spring 2021.

"When the election result is certain, we should first concentrate on the important elections in Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg as well as on the local elections in Hesse," he told the RND.

In addition to Laschet, the former Union parliamentary group leader Friedrich Merz and ex-Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen are applying to succeed CDU leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer.

The CDU top decided on Monday that the new chairman should be elected in mid-January at an almost entirely digital party conference.

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