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Armin Laschet, Friedrich Merz or is it Norbert Röttgen?
Almost a year after party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer announced the withdrawal, the CDU elects its new chairman at a digital party conference.
The starting position is extremely unclear.
In the CDU, too, until shortly before the decision, there was no mood that allowed serious conclusions to be drawn about the outcome of this vote, which was not only so fateful for the party.
North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Laschet and the former Union parliamentary group leader Merz are likely to have the best chances.
But also the foreign politician Röttgen, who was long considered an outsider in the fight for the CDU chairmanship, has recently caught up.
As the first of the three candidates, Laschet stepped in front of the microphone on Saturday.
“Maybe I am not the man of the perfect production, but I am Armin Laschet.
And you can rely on that, ”said the Prime Minister for the delegates' trust.
"We will not let our country be destroyed by right-wing terrorists and intellectual arsonists," he warned, adding: "We have to speak plainly, but not polarize."
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Then Friedrich Merz stepped on the podium, who clearly positioned himself against right-wing populism in his speech: "There will be no cooperation with the AfD with me," says Merz.
This applies to the state parliaments, the Bundestag and also the European Parliament.
And the voters should know: Every vote for the AfD is half a vote for red-red-green.