The joint CDU and CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag is celebrating its 75th anniversary. At a historic location in Bonn, in the former plenary hall of the Bundestag, where the federal eagle still hangs.
The CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag celebrated the 75th anniversary of its founding with a celebratory event in the former plenary hall in Bonn. Friedrich Merz, chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group and CDU federal chairman, said that the past 75 years had proven that both parties could achieve a great deal together. “The basic prerequisite for this is the unity between our two parties and the solidarity within the CDU/CSU parliamentary group,” emphasized Merz. He praised the cooperation as being as close, friendly and comradely as rarely before in the history of this parliamentary group.
The CDU chairman emphasized that the Union wants to govern again after the next federal election. He also emphasized the importance of the task in opposition: “We are not the fifth wheel on the wagon.” Merz and the chairman of the CSU regional group in the Bundestag, Alexander Dobrindt, spoke at the ceremony in front of around 500 current and former members of the Bundestag from the CDU and CSU and their staff.
After the first federal election 75 years ago, the CDU/CSU parliamentary group was constituted in Bonn on September 1, 1949. The first chairman was Konrad Adenauer. He was elected the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany just two weeks later.
Members of previous federal cabinets also took part in the event in the former plenary hall. The predecessors in the office of the head of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, Ralph Brinkhaus and Volker Kauder, were also present. The long-standing Chancellor and CDU chairwoman Angela Merkel was not in Bonn, but spoke in a film to mark the anniversary.
From 1992 to 1999, the members of the German Bundestag met in the former plenary hall of the German Bundestag on the banks of the Rhine. Since the Bundestag moved to Berlin, the building has been used as an event venue. The federal eagle still hangs on the wall behind the lectern. The former plenary hall is now part of the World Conference Center Bonn and, together with another new building, can be used for events with up to 7,000 people.
Source: Stern
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