CDU General Secretary Hoppermann defends Chancellor Merz

The new CDU general secretary Franziska Hoppermann defended Chancellor Friedrich Merz against criticism. Of course you can see that the falling poll numbers are leaving question marks for the Christian Democrats, said Hoppermann on Deutschlandfunk. "But we are on the right track."

Hoppermann cited the pension reform as an example. The goal is “for people to have more pensions than before and for contributions to fall in the future.” In order for things to get better, joint efforts are now necessary, she said. Merz stands for this image of the future, “where Germany should go and where everything should develop.”

Criticism from within our own ranks

Chancellor Merz has recently been criticized more and more from within his own party. For example, the chairman of the CDU workers' wing, Dennis Radtke, explained in the news magazine Focus after the AfD's success in the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt: "If the Chancellor regularly antagonizes half the country with certain statements, that is counterproductive."