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Wittenberg / Berlin (dpa) - Saxony-Anhalt's Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff wants to use his place in the CDU presidium to further promote the completion of German unity.
Politically, it was successful, said Haseloff after his election on Saturday afternoon of the German press agency.
But there are still deficits that go beyond normal differences between different regions.
Mario Voigt, parliamentary group leader of the Thuringian CDU, had given Laschet a wish that goes in the same direction: "I expect the new party leader not to lose sight of the concerns of the East."
The 66-year-old Haseloff was previously an assessor in the larger federal board of the CDU and moved up to the most important committee, the presidium, for the first time on Saturday.
He said he had a “new quality of control options” to address these issues.
Haseloff said of the new party chairman Armin Laschet that he was a very balanced politician and that he greatly appreciated his integrating power.
He was also particularly pleased about another election result: Anna Kreye, the 26-year-old head of the youth organization Junge Union, was newly elected as an assessor on the federal executive board.
This means that Saxony-Anhalt is represented twice in the CDU leadership team.
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At the two-day party conference, the CDU clarified the question, which had been postponed several times due to the Corona crisis, of who should take over the leadership of the Christian Democrats at the beginning of a super election year after Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer's withdrawal.
In the end, North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Armin Laschet prevailed over the former Union parliamentary group leader in the Bundestag, Friedrich Merz, and the foreign expert Norbert Röttgen.
Because of the corona pandemic, the party conference was held completely digitally for the first time.