After the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, 33 CDU members from Großbeeren called for a rethink by the party leadership in an incendiary letter.
After the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, 33 CDU members from Großbeeren, including Mayor Martin Wonneberger, wrote an incendiary letter to Chancellor Friedrich Merz and called for a rethink by the party leadership.
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After the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt, the CDU leadership is coming under internal pressure.
In the community of Großbeeren near Berlin, CDU members wrote an incendiary letter to Chancellor Friedrich Merz. »We don't need a CDU leadership that explains to the base why their policies are actually right. We need a CDU leadership that is prepared to ask itself why fewer and fewer people think this policy is right," wrote the chairman of the CDU Großbeeren, Adrian Hepp, on Facebook, representing a total of 33 members who are listed by name. Among them is Mayor Martin Wonneberger.
The Christian Democrats in the community in the Teltow-Fläming district do not consider the AfD victory and the debacle for the CDU in the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt to be an “industrial accident”. “We are not losing voters because these people have suddenly become radical,” the fire letter says. "We are losing a significant number of them because they have lost trust in the CDU and in the ability of established politics to actually solve their problems."
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