Chancellery Minister Helge Braun is once again leading the Hessian CDU into the Bundestag election campaign.
The 48-year-old from Giessen received 98 out of 100 possible votes (98 percent) during the Christian Democrats' party conference on Saturday in the Giessen congress hall.
In 2017, Braun received 93.5 percent of the votes cast. On the list positions two to five follow the Odenwald member of the Bundestag and budget politician Patricia Lips (95 votes), the State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Education Michael Meister (Bergstrasse, 95 votes), the chairman of the Hessian regional group, Michael Brand (Fulda, 99 votes) and the deputy parliamentary group chairman Katja Leikert (Main-Kinzig-Kreis, 83 voices).
Hesse's Prime Minister, CDU state chairman and deputy federal chairman Volker Bouffier was combative in his speech and received long applause from the delegates. "We will not be satisfied with 28 or 29 percent," Bouffier clarified and said: "We are looking forward to this election campaign and we will win it. ”Bouffier did not mention the scandal of right-wing chats with the Hessian police, which is putting party friends and Hesse's interior minister Peter Beuth under pressure. After the party congress, Bouffier and Braun drove straight to Berlin, where they worked on the Union's election program, which is to be presented on June 21.