Election to the presidency of the CDU party – Kramp-Karrenbauer wants to score with the experience

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer puts the emphasis against and shows her party: The CDU has a real choice. Here are the men – Merz and Spahn – who, in their public conceptions, move away from Angela Merkel. There, Kramp-Karrenbauer, who begins his candidacy speech with a reference to Angela Merkel, personal memories and meetings with the Chancellor. And at the same time, it is the general secretary who expresses it, something that Merkel herself has never said before: there is no ultimate end to a long Party presidency, it is a time that was more than a mere party presidency:

"With the decision of the party leaders, this era ends and such a time can not be continued indefinitely, nor can it be annulled."

Kramp-Karrenbauer promises continuity and a new start

Kramp-Karrenbauer promises continuity and a new beginning. He wants to build on what the party has achieved in Merkel's time and at the same time create new signs – as she says – content and style. There is a lot of talk about people's needs for security and cohesion. Most importantly, Kramp-Karrenbauer is recommended as a candidate who stepped down as prime minister in February to serve the party.

"In the last eight months, I have listened very carefully."

Reminds Kramp-Karrenbauer of her so-called listening tour, which she has been doing since spring by all divisions of the CDU.

I felt the pride of the members of this party, I felt the frustration of the party members, I felt the uncertainty, but I mostly felt that the party He did not want to: he did not want to become a party in power. Category of either-or think. "

Kramp-Karrenbauer wants to be a bridge builder

The CDU as a Union with its different wings needs bridge builders – this is the expectation of many members. Previously, Spahn was perceived as a representative of the conservative wing, while Merz was one of the protagonists of the revival of economic liberalism within the CDU. Anyone who thus contributes only for a part, but not for the whole party and society, has a solid place in the image of the Annegret Kramp-Karren Bauer Union – not only at the summit, but for example as a tax and financial expert radical simplification of the tax, according to which the calculation of income tax should be inscribed on a carpet of beer.

"Friedrich Merz has a lot to offer, and if we manage to put aside the beer mat and develop a corresponding tax application from the CDU after the new challenges, and Friedrich Merz has its share, that would be enough. the CDU "

AKK refers to their election experience

Kramp-Karrenbauer can also distribute. This too may have been a calculated part of the current performance of the Saar representation. Perhaps the most powerful badet that she plays is AKK, as it is called in the CDU, with the term experience. Not just in the treatment of CDU today and not just as the head of the government of a state.

"And also special experiences in the point: how to win majorities, how to conquer them, how to defend them."

Kramp Karrenbauer recalls that in March 2017, despite many predictions, she won the elections in the state of Saarland, which at the same time began the recovery after the rise of the SPD with Martin Schulz .

She does not need to add that her competitors, Merz and Spahn, have never won more than one constituency in the Bundestag. Kramp-Karrenbauer will insist in the coming weeks that the CDU also remember and, in the end, rely on trust, probation and the refusal to make radical changes.