After its historic disaster in the federal election, the CDU wants to re-elect the entire federal executive committee at a special party conference.
This was decided unanimously, said CDU General Secretary Paul Ziemiak on Monday after deliberations of the top committees in Berlin.
He announced a meeting of the district chairpersons for October 30th.
Three days later, the Presidium and the Federal Executive Committee will decide how the base will be specifically integrated into a staff and content renewal.
It remained open whether the party congress will take place in December or possibly not until January.
Ziemiak said that he understood “the frustration and anger” of MPs who, despite a committed election campaign, did not move into the Bundestag.
The error analysis will be "brutally open" - "all topics must come on the table".
Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet announced on Thursday that he wanted to moderate the renewal process of his party that is now necessary and propose a party congress to the committees.
The CDU chairman postponed his own ambitions in terms of personnel realignment and also for any negotiations with the Greens and FDP about a Jamaica alliance.
However, he did not give a date for a withdrawal from the party leadership.
Laschet could hope that there is still a power option if the SPD, the Greens and the FDP fail to come to an agreement in the negotiations on a traffic light government.
The ongoing exploratory talks between the three parties "we are monitoring very closely and our offer remains," said Ziemiak.
In addition to economic politician Friedrich Merz, health minister Jens Spahn, foreign politician Norbert Röttgen, parliamentary group leader Ralph Brinkhaus and economic politician Carsten Linnemann are possible applicants for the party leadership.
In the CDU it was recently disputed how big the role the party base should play in the upcoming generation change.
Several top politicians called for a member survey on the future party leadership.
Such a survey is possible according to the CDU statute, but it has no binding effect on the decisive party congress.
Other leading CDU politicians consider such a survey to be problematic because if the result is unclear, it could lead to further division.