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Berlin (dpa) - CDU regional associations in eastern Germany have emphasized their support for the new CDU federal chairman Armin Laschet.

In the party's executive committee, an Eastern conference was suggested, reported the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung”.

Several CDU top politicians from the eastern German states mentioned to the newspaper the issue of structural change, such as in the coal regions, as a point of trust for the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister, who was elected head of the Christian Democrats at the party conference two weeks ago.

«Laschet has a great understanding of structural change and the needs and fears associated with it.

And we have a lot of experience with this in the East, ”said Thuringia's CDU leader Christian Hirte.

According to his own statement, Brandenburg's CDU General Secretary Gordon Hoffmann has “high hopes” in Laschet: “He knows that, for example, the exit from coal, which affects his country just like ours, is not just something rational, but about fears and Mistrust is accompanied. "

Saxony-Anhalt's Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff (CDU) told the newspaper that he got to know Laschet as someone “to whom the development in the new federal states is also an affair of the heart”.

"I always experience Armin Laschet as very interested, but also well-informed about developments in eastern Germany," emphasized Haseloff.

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The CDU chairman of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Michael Sack, told the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung": "Laschet still has to make himself known in the East, we support him in this."

He is looking forward to the first real meeting with him, if that is possible again.

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