The chairwoman of the Hessian CDU parliamentary group, Ines Claus, has been elected to the executive committee of her federal party.

With 71.9 percent of the possible votes, she took a place in the middle of the eight candidates who had applied for seven places to be awarded in the vote at a digital party conference on Saturday.

The performance of the Hessian politicians was eagerly awaited in the state party, because a new start in terms of personnel is currently being discussed there.

As reported, Prime Minister and party leader Volker Bouffier wants to announce at the end of February whether he wants to pave the way for a successor or whether he wants to run again in the state elections in autumn 20923.

A year ago, he was confirmed in office as one of five deputy federal chairmen and achieved the highest proportion of votes with 88 percent.

He threw his influence into the balance to prevent Friedrich Merz as party leader and to push through Armin Laschet as a candidate for chancellor.

Merz was elected the new chairman on Saturday after being nominated in a primary in December.

Bouffier decided not to run again.

He makes use of the rule that he is a member of the Executive Committee in his capacity as Prime Minister by virtue of his office as an advisory member without having to be elected.

The candidates introduced themselves with a video that was available to everyone on the CDU website.

According to the state association, Claus' performance was the most professional.

She presented herself as a family mother who, coming from church youth work, was involved in local politics before she was elected to the state parliament.

Heck and Beuth elected as assessors

Among the 39 candidates who applied for one of the 26 seats as assessor on the federal executive board, four were from Hessen.

The member of the Bundestag, Stefan Heck, achieved the best result.

The 39-year-old doctor of law received almost 64 percent of the possible votes.

He is likely to have benefited above all from the national contacts that he made as a former state chairman of the Junge Union.

The Hessian Minister of the Interior, Peter Beuth, who heads the CDU Federal Committee for Domestic Policy, received one percent less than Heck.

He is counted among Bouffier's possible successors.

The state minister for federal and European affairs, Lucia Puttrich, was also elected to the federal executive board with a good 62 percent.

On the other hand, the former member of the Bundestag Bettina Wiesmann was not able to assert herself.

Just under 33 percent voted for them.

The fifty-five-year-old is one of the candidates for the position of Frankfurt CDU district chairman.

After the resignation of the incumbent Jan Schneider, a successor will be elected in mid-March.

Bouffier pointed out that Wiesmann was running for the first time and that the field of applicants was large.

The Hessian CDU is "represented excellently in the federal executive board".

She will contribute to "bringing Germany's CDU back to its old strength and turning it into a modern people's party".