"It's honest": Spahn expects a new rise in the retirement age

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Wednesday, November 28, 2018

At the sixth regional conference, Jens Spahn wants to be honest as a candidate for the presidency of the party. The age of retirement will continue to increase in the future, he said. Meanwhile, his competitors are focusing on the general good of the party.

According to Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn, Germans must be ready to retire later. "With the increase in life expectancy and the age of retirement from 2030, it is necessary to continue to increase," said Spahn in Düsseldorf during the presentation of the three most successful candidates. promising to the national presidency of the CDU. "It's honest." Until now, the age of retirement is gradually rising until 2029. Since the birth of 1964, it is 67th. In Germany, life expectancy is increasing every day for just under six hours, Spahn said. This also speaks for the health system. But everything had to be financed.

At the sixth regional conference, CDU Secretary-General Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer focused on the general development of the party. She wanted to run the party as president with 40% election results. "40%, that's the margin we want to get in Germany and in state badociations," she said. "At the threshold, we will be measured." The Union had reached with Chancellor Angela Merkel the highest federal election more than a year ago, only 32.9% – making it the second worst result since 1949. The Union is currently listed in surveys only about 26%.

Kramp-Karrenbauer's second-in-command at the CDU, Friedrich Merz, also told Dusseldorf that the UDC's downward trend should be halted and reversed. The decline in CDU positions has been affected in recent years. The former head of the Union faction badured that he was striving to become the new leader of the CDU and not the end of the grand coalition. "There is no reason to speculate on new elections." He added, "We have an elected government." Merz was very applauded at the end of his performance.

The regional conference at NRW also focused on the clearing of the Hambach Forest and related events. In this context, Merz and Spahn attacked the Greens, which are currently in more than 20% polls. It was "double standards", so the Greens mitzublished the clearing of the Hambacher Forest for lignite mining, but that they were then chained to trees, Spahn said. "In the end, there is no trace of the Greens." Merz also said about the demonstration at Hambacher Forst: "The Greens must clarify their relationship with the monopoly of power of this state".

North Rhine-Westphalia is particularly important for the election of the new CDA to the presidency of the CDU, Angela Merkel, as two candidates from the largest national badociation come with Merz and Spahn. In addition, NRW provides nearly a third of delegates to the decisive conference of the CDU federal party in a week and a half.

Source: n-tv.de