The result of the Saxon Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer's re-election as CDU chairman, which can only be described as embarrassing, is anything but a snapshot of the political untimely.
Because it directs our attention to a state of the Union that has to be described not only in the case of the federal party as the progressive disruption of personnel and programs.
In many countries, the CDU is hardly better off.
This is especially true in the east.
As far as dealing with the AfD is concerned, the rifts in Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt run right through the parliamentary groups in state parliaments and local parliaments.
In addition, there is a staffing ceiling that has become thinner and thinner since reunification.
In the west, too, the number of members is pointing downwards.
The only thing that increases is their average age.
And instead of the AfD, the question of how to deal with Angela Merkel's legacy is polarizing within the party.
The state elections in 2022 cannot be won with economic liberality alone.
And whether the member survey on the person of the future federal chairman will have a satisfactory effect can reasonably be doubted.
In Baden-Württemberg, the CDU has not yet recovered from the dispute over Erwin Teufel's successor.
That was in 2004.