CDU: Kramp-Karrenbauer wants to stand up to Merkel

The new CDU leader, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer do not want to put in all the points along the line of German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU). You’ll stand up to the Chancellor, “where it is in the interest of the party necessary,” said Kramp-Karrenbauer on Saturday evening in the ARD program “report from Congress”. “What is good, is to be continued, and where there is something to change, we will change it.”

The CDU had made at its party Congress in Hamburg “clearly, that you want to remain the basic structure of the basic axis, as it is”, said Kramp-Karrenbauer in the Interview. The party had also named, but “significant issues, where you want changes”. Kramp-Karrenbauer announced, to take care of first to the migration and security policy.

“Workshop on” Migration and security

The “picture on Sunday”, said Kramp-Karrenbauer: “in addition to the closed meeting of the newly elected Federal Executive Board in January, I will convene a ‘Workshop’ on the topic of Migration and security with experts, and critics of the migration and refugee policy, in order to develop concrete next improvements”. The program of the CDU for the European elections should be based, among other things, on these results.

The government of the CDU is to play according to the ideas of Kramp-Karrenbauer, in the future, in a “triangle” of “government, government, faction and party in government”. “The party in government plays a role,” said Kramp-Karrenbauer in the ARD. Your task will to act, “as a champion of the party”. The new party Chairman announced, the coalition committees of the SPD in the future with Merkel and Union faction leader Ralph Brinkhaus vote.