Bremen CDU leader Strohmann warns of the collapse of the federal CDU

Bremen's CDU state chairman Heiko Strohmann has warned of the danger of the CDU collapsing nationwide.

What is currently happening in the party landscape in East Germany “could also happen in Duisburg and Bremen,” he said on Deutschlandfunk.

He appealed to his party and Chancellor Friedrich Merz to empathize more with the people in East Germany and to take their concerns seriously.

The CDU Germany failed to take care of the East.

She still looks at the East “through the lens of West Germany, that is, this party on the right bank of the Rhine, founded by Konrad Adenauer.”

Merz is “more of a symptom than a cause of the CDU’s problem,” said the Bremen CDU leader, who grew up in Rostock.

“I would actually just like to ask you, I would say, to simply go the route of speaking to people who have a different perspective on life.”

Strohmann warned: "If we continue like this, I see major problems that at some point we will sink into this whole social process that is going on worldwide (...), just as conservative parties have already done in other European countries."

The East is not a special case in terms of the change in the party landscape, “but honestly an early indicator of a development that has long been taking place in the West as well.”