After the federal election defeat and the change in leadership to Friedrich Merz, some CDU state associations are also reorganizing themselves. Julia Klöckner was replaced by her predecessor in Mainz at the weekend.
Change at the top of the CDU in Rhineland-Palatinate and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: The Mainz parliamentary group leader Christian Baldauf replaces ex-Federal Minister of Agriculture Julia Klöckner, and the parliamentary group leader Franz-Robert Liskow also takes over the chairmanship of the state party in Schwerin.
The 54-year-old Baldauf had been Klöckner’s predecessor in the state party until 2010. After losing the federal election, she declared last fall that she would no longer run.
At the state party conference on Saturday in Wittlich, 271 of 324 delegates voted for Baldauf and 49 against him, 4 delegates abstained. The party reported 84.7 percent approval, including abstentions the figure is 83.6 percent.
Rhineland-Palatinate was dominated by the CDU for decades, with Prime Ministers such as Helmut Kohl (1969-1976) and Bernhard Vogel (1976-1988). The SPD has been the head of government since 1991, and Malu Dreyer has been in power for nine years.
In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the CDU has two years of permanent leadership changes and a historic defeat in the state elections and wants to regain its profile and approval. At the state party conference on Saturday in Güstrow, around 150 delegates elected 34-year-old Liskow as the new party leader with a large majority. He ran unopposed and received 84.6 percent of the votes according to CDU calculations. After 15 years as a junior partner of the SPD, the Union left the government last fall. The SPD had chosen the left as a new partner.
Source: Stern
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