CDU: "No FDP-light" - CDU's employee wing demands a course correction from Merz
The CDU has "narrowed down", criticizes CDA chief Radtke. He wants to give social issues more space and names specific plans - including one that many business representatives fear.
The CDU is facing calls for a fundamental course correction after poor election results in Saxony-Anhalt, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and Berlin. Dennis Radtke, head of the CDU's worker wing, said the party is no longer a "people's party" and has become too narrow in its focus. Radtke and others, including Thuringia's Minister President Mario Voigt, are demanding a new approach, with Voigt calling for a "programmatic new beginning".
The CDU presidium will meet on October 11 to discuss the party's response to the election losses, but there is currently no consensus among leaders on how to proceed.
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