Shortly before the federal election in Germany, the Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet wants to “make the CDU visible as a team”. He wants to connect the different wings of the Union with his “future team”: the Christian-social, the liberal and the conservative.
At the performance yesterday in the Konrad-Adenauer-Haus in Berlin, Laschet asked the individual members to join him on the stage. The team includes: the former Union parliamentary group leader and economic expert Friedrich Merz, digital state minister Dorothee Br (CSU), the terrorism expert Peter Neumann and Schleswig-Holstein’s education minister Karin Prien, the Saxon culture and tourism minister Barbara Klepsch, CDU Vizin Silvia Breher, the deputy Union parliamentary group leader Andreas Jung and the Bundestag candidate and music manager Joe Chialo (all CDU).
Recently, in view of the bad personal poll results of the Union Chancellor candidate, the pressure within the party increased that Laschet should present himself with a team in order to make the breadth of the Union clear. However, Laschet had spoken out against setting up a shadow cabinet, since there are CDU ministers in the incumbent federal government.
With the “future team” he now also wants to put pressure on the SPD, which is putting its Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz in the limelight in the election campaign. “I am pleased to see what other personalities the SPD has to offer,” said Laschet. The SPD is hiding its staff.
