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Influence of the economic wing in the Union is growing significantly
70 percent of MPs belong to the Mittelstandsunion. This shows an internal evaluation that star is present. But where is the workers’ wing?
The economic wing in the Union parliamentary group has been significantly strengthened from this election. Seven out of ten MPs (with) belong in the new faction of the SME and Economic Union. This emerges from an internal evaluation that star is present.
146 out of 208 parliamentary group members belong to the one among their federal chairman Gitta Connemann. That is again than in the last legislative period. At that time it was 131 out of 196 MPs or almost 67 percent.
New boss in the group’s workers’ wing
The Union’s workers’ wing, the CDA, is therefore clearly in the minority. The CDA assumes up to 40 MPs who belong to their own warehouse. With the new chairman of the employee association in the parliamentary group, Stefan Nacke, you want to gain more influence in the future. He narrowly prevailed in a martial candidacy on Monday.
At the moment, however, the economic wing dominates. “This underlines: The new faction is on Merz course,” said co-boss Gitta Connemann that star To the grown strength of the MIT. “Because Friedrich Merz stands for the values of medium -sized businesses – economic reason, a sense of responsibility, a clear regulatory course.”
Economic wings as influential as they have not been in decades
The economic wing should be as influential in the party than for decades. The party leader and chancellor in Spe, Friedrich Merz, is also a member of the MIT. His general secretary Carsten Linnemann was chairman of the influential middle class association from 2013 to 2021.
According to its own statements, the association has 25,000 members. She sees herself as an inner party advocacy of entrepreneurs and the self -employed. It is an independent association within the CDU.
Source: Stern
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