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Düsseldorf / Berlin (dpa / lnw) - The opposition Afd in North Rhine-Westphalia sees the election of Prime Minister Armin Laschet as head of the CDU as a negative signal for Germany.
With this election, the CDU made it clear that it did not have any prospects for the future of the country, commented AfD parliamentary group leader Markus Wagner on Saturday in Düsseldorf.
"For NRW this probably means that the incumbent Prime Minister will find even less time to deal with the problems of the largest federal state."
Laschet is to be the successor to Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the new CDU boss.
The 59-year-old prevailed on Saturday at the digital CDU party convention in a runoff election against ex-Union parliamentary group leader Friedrich Merz.
The decision still has to be formally confirmed by postal vote.
Laschet received 521 votes, Merz 466. 991 votes were cast, four delegates abstained.
In the first ballot, Merz had 385 and Laschet 380 votes.
224 votes went to Norbert Röttgen, who ended up in third place and thus dropped out of the race.
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Information on the CDU federal party conference