Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet has indicated his willingness to put aside his own ambitions for possible Jamaica negotiations with the Greens and the FDP.

"First the project and then the person," said the CDU boss on Thursday in an information switching conference of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group on the state of the Union, as the German press agency learned from participants.

He was quoted as saying: "If it goes better with other people, then gladly." At the same time, Laschet announced a personnel reorganization at a party congress.

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