State CDU: Haseloff election to the Presidium has the highest priority

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Magdeburg / Berlin (dpa / sa) - When choosing a new CDU leadership team, the state party primarily keeps its fingers crossed for its own candidate, Reiner Haseloff.

For the Saxony-Anhalt CDU, it is the top priority that the Prime Minister be elected to the Presidium, General Secretary Sven Schulze said on Friday.

If Haseloff was elected, he could represent East German interests in the most important body together with his Saxon counterpart Michael Kretschmer.

A new board will be elected on Saturday at the two-day party conference.

It is eagerly awaited who will be elected to succeed the outgoing party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer.

Due to the tense Corona situation, the party conference will be held completely digitally.

Of the 1001 delegates, 18 come from Saxony-Anhalt.

The 66-year-old Haseloff is running for the first time for the CDU presidium, which includes the party leader, five deputies, the general secretary and the treasurer, seven other elected members.

So far Haseloff has been a member of the larger federal board.

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Three men from North Rhine-Westphalia are applying for the new CDU leader: the incumbent head of government Armin Laschet, the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Bundestag, Norbert Röttgen, and ex-Union parliamentary group leader Friedrich Merz.

According to the Secretary General, there are no uniform favorites among the Saxony-Anhalt delegates, but a mixed picture, "with a slight advantage for Friedrich Merz".

Regardless of the result, it is clear for the state CDU that the new chairman must also keep an eye on the special situation in eastern Germany, said Schulze.

In addition to Haseloff, a young Saxon hitchhiker could join the top committee: The Federal Association of the Young Union (JU) sends Anna Kreye from Magdeburg into the race for the federal executive board.

The 26-year-old has been JU country manager for two years.

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Application video Reiner Haseloff for the CDU Federal Presidium

Application video Anna Kreye for the CDU federal executive committee