{
  "id": 688011,
  "title": "Bundestag: Dos Santos-Wintz is supposed to become the new parliamentary manager of the Union faction",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/bundestag-dos-santos-wintz-soll-neue-unions-fraktionsmanagerin-werden",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-12T17:56:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/bundestag-dos-santos-wintz-soll-neue-unions-fraktionsmanagerin-werden/100246872.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "Berlin. CDU MP Catarina dos Santos-Wintz is to become the new First Parliamentary Managing Director of the Union in the Bundestag. The new parliamentary group leader Thorsten Frei (CDU) proposed the 32-year-old lawyer as the successor to Steffen Bilger, who Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) had recruited as Transport Minister for the cabinet.\n\n\"Catarina is an excellent colleague who will exercise this important office with vigor,\" Frei wrote in a text message to MPs, according to information from the German Press Agency, as initially reported by the \"Rheinische Post\". Dos Santos-Wintz, who represents the Aachen constituency, has been a member of the Bundestag since 2021 and is also a member of the Council of Elders. She was born in Lisbon, Portugal's capital.\n\nShe has already served as Parliamentary Managing Director in the Union parliamentary group. Frei stated in his SMS that she had gained a lot of experience in this role and had convincingly completed her tasks. She is well-connected and assertive, and he also appreciates her balanced and collegial manner.\n\nAccording to a parliamentary group spokesman, the election of dos Santos-Wintz is to take place in the first session of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group after the summer break at the beginning of September. The new appointments were triggered by the resignation of parliamentary group leader Jens Spahn (CDU).\n\nFrei was already elected as the new parliamentary group leader in a special session. Spahn had previously made public that he and his husband had had a child with the help of a surrogate mother in the USA. This had sparked criticism, also within the Union's own ranks.",
  "summary": "After several personnel changes in the government, an important position in the CDU/CSU in parliament is also being filled. The 32-year-old MP from North Rhine-Westphalia is to become the parliamentary group's manager.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}