CDU workers' wing no longer sees its own party as a people's party

The CDU's past defeats in the state elections are causing discontent and criticism within the party. According to a ZDF report, the federal executive board of the Christian Democratic Workers' Union (CDA) has decided on an appeal for the "reform of a people's party."

In it, the CDA writes that the CDU "no longer lives up to its claim to be a people's party." Merz had announced years ago that the lineup as a people's party needed to be broadened, ZDF quoted Federal Chairman Dennis Radtke from the CDA's four-page policy paper available to it. Instead, he was not able to sufficiently involve people.

Statements by the Chancellor that people are sick too often or show too little willingness to perform are more likely to be rejected by voters rather than picked up. "That's quite obvious and it can't be explained away, and of course the party chairman has to take these things to heart," says Radtke directly in the ZDF program Berlin. However, he rejected a change in the Chancellery and at the top of the CDU. "You shouldn't play with options like this arbitrarily," said Radtke. “But it’s clear to me that things have to change.”

The CDA demanded in its appeal that the CDU's realignment was necessary in order to win back "the working middle." "If the CDU is thrown out of a state parliament for the first time in its history, it is not an industrial accident."