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Mainz (dpa / lrs) - The Rhineland-Palatinate CDU elects its list of candidates for the federal election in September at a party conference on Saturday (from 10 a.m.).

"It will not be an easy course," said the state chairwoman Julia Klöckner when presenting the proposal for the list.

"The Greens are a challenge, and we accept this challenge."

In addition to Federal Agriculture Minister Klöckner, CDU federal party leader and Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet has also been announced as a speaker at the party congress.

When deciding on the candidate for chancellor, several district associations of the party in Rhineland-Palatinate had spoken out in favor of Laschet's competitor, the Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder.

The proposal of the state executive for the list for the federal election is headed by Klöckner.

This is followed by the member of the Bundestag Patrick Schnieder and the Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Health, Thomas Gebhart.

There are 41 candidates on the list, 16 of whom are women (39 percent).

There are 3 women (20 percent) in the first 15 places.

The CDU Rhineland-Palatinate has 14 members in the current Bundestag.

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Around 250 delegates are expected to attend the party congress and will be connected digitally.

The board wants to meet in a hotel in Mainz, where Laschet is also expected on site.

The electronic voting of the party congress should be legally secured by a subsequent postal vote.

In the state elections in Rhineland-Palatinate on March 14, the CDU received 27.7 percent of the vote.

Prime Minister Malu Dreyer's SPD was again the strongest party with 35.7 percent and is now again forming a government with the Greens and the FDP.

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