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Wiesbaden (dpa) - Hesse’s Prime Minister Volker Bouffier (CDU) has spoken out in favor of the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Armin Laschet as the new CDU federal chairman.
Bouffier advertised Laschet at a digital conference of Hessian delegates at the CDU federal party congress and described him as the best candidate in the current situation, reported the Hessischer Rundfunk and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Tuesday.
A spokesman for the Hessian CDU confirmed the information.
Laschet has the necessary prerequisites, especially in view of the corona pandemic and its consequences, said Bouffier, who is himself deputy federal chairman.
He not only stands for competence in economic issues, but also for empathy in politics.
In North Rhine-Westphalia he also showed that he could bring a party together and do good government work in a coalition.
The CDU federal party convention will take place digitally next Friday and Saturday followed by a postal vote.
In addition to Laschet, the former Union parliamentary group leader Friedrich Merz and foreign politician Norbert Röttgen are applying to succeed party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer.
Hessen has 88 delegates out of a total of 1001 delegates.