In the election the CDU chief Friedrich Merz was subject to – one internal party vote for him: He wants to be the CDU-right candidate for the district hochsauerlandkreis. The Lawsuit has now triggered an unusual process. The local CDU-Kreisverband don’t want supporters for Merz or its competitors, Patrick Sensburg comment in the local press.
Circle the Association of chief Matthias Kerkhoff called on the local newspaper “Westphalia post” in writing, not to publish letters to the editor and more to fight coordination between Merz and the city. After the vote on may 17. April admit it “ample opportunity for the reader, and Express readers”. The city represents the constituency currently in the Bundestag.
As the “Westphalia post” reported self, reached Kerkhoffs letter several local editorial offices of the newspaper. In the Letter, the members of Parliament, it is set on the vote in April: “It is an intra-party proceedings, and my desire is, that the members and delegates of the CDU can make an unbiased picture of the applicants and then decide.”
More Kerkhoff writes: “In the current stage, I would ask you to respect the fact that it is an internal affair of the CDU HSK, which can of course be editorially and accompanied.”
The editorial Board of the “Westphalia post” stressed, you’ll also prints continue to letters to the editor, “after they have been subjected to the usual examination”. As well as the editorial coverage of the letters were part of the formation of opinion. “That in the run – of intra – party fight nominations or fight votes, media statements of opinion not hold back, corresponds to our journalistic mission.”
Around 480 CDU delegates from the district hochsauerlandkreis to decide at a meeting in a sports stadium, if you send Merz or mrągowo as a candidate for election to the Bundestag in the race. Sensburg, who had taken over in 2009, the successor of Merz as a member of the Hochsauerland region in the Bundestag, had declared his candidature in January. Merz announced in early March, his candidacy after he was put Armin Laschet in the fight for the CDU presidency..
“The district hochsauerlandkreis is my political and personal home,” said Merz, at the time, the MIRROR. “I should have great pleasure to represent the people, and our Region in the Bundestag.” The city had said, he is shy no fight candidacy.
