Federal presidential election: NRW CDU nominates Günther Jauch for the Federal Assembly

Düsseldorf/Berlin. The CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia nominates TV presenter Günther Jauch for the Federal Assembly, which is scheduled to elect a new Federal President on January 30th. Ilse Aigner is running for the highest office in the state for the Union.

Günther Jauch has been “intensely involved in the social, ecclesiastical and cultural areas as well as in monument protection for years,” the NRW CDU announced in the evening in justification. Accordingly, the party nominated a total of 21 people for the Federal Assembly.

These include entrepreneur President Arndt Kirchhoff, former Bundestag President Norbert Lammert and the Federal Minister for Digital, Karsten Wildberger. The CDU parliamentary group in the Düsseldorf state parliament can nominate 31 additional people, so that a total of 52 will be sent to the Federal Assembly.

The other parliamentary groups in the state parliament are also allowed to nominate a certain number of people, depending on their size. In addition to prominent faces, there are usually also many members of the state parliament.