An old acquaintance is moving to the top of the CDU in Rhineland-Palatinate. Christian Baldauf replaces the outgoing ex-minister of agriculture Julia Klöckner.
Ex-Federal Minister of Agriculture Julia Klöckner is history as CDU leader in Rhineland-Palatinate. Her successor is her predecessor: Christian Baldauf, who is five years her senior.
The CDU parliamentary group leader in the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament was elected the new state leader of the party on Saturday. At the party conference in Wittlich, 271 of 324 delegates voted for the 54-year-old from Frankenthal in the Palatinate. 49 voted against him, 4 delegates abstained. The party put the approval rate at 84.7 percent, including abstentions at 83.6 percent. Baldauf said he was looking forward to the task.
Baldauf is the successor to Julia Klöckner (49), who took over the party leadership from him in 2010. Klöckner had declared last fall that she would no longer compete.
At the party conference, she described the year 2021 with the worst results to date in a state election and a federal election as a low blow for the CDU Rhineland-Palatinate. Now it is important to “keep your roots, but to put yourself to the test”. Above all, the processes in the party would have to be examined.
For decades, Rhineland-Palatinate was a CDU-dominated federal state with Prime Ministers such as Helmut Kohl (1969 to 1976) and Bernhard Vogel (1976 to 1988). The SPD has been the head of government in Mainz since 1991. Malu Dreyer has been Prime Minister for nine years.
Source: Stern
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