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Erfurt / Berlin (dpa / th) - The former Thuringian state party and parliamentary group leader of the CDU, Mike Mohring, has been elected to the federal executive committee of the Christian Democrats.
At the digital party conference on Saturday, Mohring received the fewest votes with 527 among the 26 members who were elected to the body.
He had previously been a member of the party's smaller Federal Presidium, which meets more frequently.
The former Thuringian Minister of Science and State Parliament President Dagmar Schipanski was re-elected to the Federal Executive Board with 623 votes.
"For us as the Thuringian CDU, it is a success that both candidates were elected," said Thuringia's CDU General Secretary Christian Herrgott on Saturday.
As a consequence, after losing the state elections in 2019 and after violent internal party criticism of his actions, Mohring resigned from both the CDU state chairmanship and the parliamentary group chairman in the Thuringian state parliament.
The Thuringian CDU caused a political quake in Germany last February because it voted together with the AfD in the election of FDP politician Thomas Kemmerich as short-term minister-president.
Mohring is also nominated for a direct seat in the federal election in September.
His constituency 191 includes parts of the Weimarer Land district with Mohring's hometown Apolda, the Sömmerda district and the city of Jena.