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Wiesbaden (dpa / lhe) - The new CDU boss Armin Laschet has the best prerequisites for the office, according to the Hessian Prime Minister Volker Bouffier.
«Armin Laschet has brought the CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia to strong results and successfully leads the state government there.
He has the best prerequisites to lead the CDU united, ”said Bouffier (CDU) on Saturday.
"Now we have a new captain who is entitled to our solidarity."
Only a closed union is a successful union.
In the past, Bouffier had spoken out in favor of the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister as the successor to Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer at the head of the CDU.
Laschet had prevailed against the former Union parliamentary leader Friedrich Merz in the second ballot at the digital federal party conference.
Laschet received 521 of the 991 delegate votes cast, and Merz 466. The third candidate, foreign policy expert Norbert Röttgen, was eliminated in the first ballot.
The result of the online voting still has to be formally confirmed by postal vote.
According to the Hessian SPD leader and chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group Nancy Faeser, the dispute over the direction of the CDU remains unsolved.
The decision was too tight.