Ex-Minister
Merz suggests Klöckner as the new Bundestag president
Traditionally, the largest faction occupies the post of parliamentary president. Julia Klöckner is considered a favorite in the CDU – also with party leader Friedrich Merz.
CDU MP Julia Klöckner is to become a parliamentary president in the next Bundestag. Union faction leader Friedrich Merz (CDU) proposed the 52-year-old Rhineland-Palatinate MP, according to participants in a meeting of the CDU/CSU MP for the election for the second highest state office according to the Federal President. The MPs unanimously stood behind the proposal.
The newly elected Bundestag will come together on March 25 for its constituent session. At this meeting, a new President of the Bundestag is elected in a secret election. Traditionally, the largest parliamentary group in parliament occupies this post – the Union in the upcoming legislative period.
Leading CDU politician praise Klöckner
The Saxon Prime Minister and deputy CDU chairman Michael Kretschmer had said before the advice of the party leadership that he has known Klöckner for more than 20 years. She is “a person who has shown that he can bring together that he can lead meetings that can inspire and who in his own being also stands for confidence. And Germany needs confidence,” added Kretschmer. “I think Julia Klöckner will be a very good Bundestag president.”
For the deputy CDU chairwoman and Schleswig-Holstein Minister of Education Karin Prien, Klöckner is a great woman and politician who trusts her everything-“too”. Saxony-Anhalt CDU boss Sven Schulze said about the 52-year-old CDU treasurer: “Julia Klöckner is a good woman and she will do it.”
Julia Klöckner: Journalist, Wine Queen, Agricultural Minister
From 2018 to 2021, Klöckner was Federal Agriculture Minister in Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and between 2012 and 2022 belonged to the ranks of the deputy CDU chairman. In the opposition period after the 2021 election, she was the economic policy spokeswoman for the Union faction.
In the Bundestag, the trained journalist Klöckner had previously been sitting from 2002 and 2011, but then switched to state politics in her homeland in Rhineland-Palatinate. As head of the state and faction, she competed twice as a top candidate- and just narrowly lost to incumbent Kurt Beck (SPD) and then again against Prime Minister Malu Dreyer (SPD).
Klöckner was born in Bad Kreuznach and grew up in a nearby winery of her family. She was elected German wine queen in 1995.
Note: This article has been updated.
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Source: Stern
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