CDU Berlin: Berlin Finance Senator Evers is to become the CDU’s top candidate in Berlin

Berlin Finance Senator Stefan Evers is to become the CDU’s top candidate for the election to the House of Representatives on September 20th. The CDU district chairmen had agreed on this, said CDU parliamentary group leader Dirk Stettner and the chairman of the CDU Berlin regional group, Jan-Marco Luczak. The move was expected. In addition, Evers will serve as interim state chairman CDU Take over Berlin from Wegner.

Evers will be the successor to Berlin’s governing mayor Kai Wegner. He gave up his candidacy for a new term of office after growing criticism from within his own ranks about his crisis management during the power outage in January. However, he wants to continue as Governing Mayor of the capital until the end of the current legislative period. The CDU state executive committee must make the final decision.

A state board meeting will be called as quickly as possible to confirm Evers’ role, Stettner said. The election campaign should also be changed quickly so that posters can be put up at the beginning of August. The aim is to go into the election campaign as united as possible. A “left-wing alliance” should be prevented and a “bourgeois” Berlin be preserved. The House of Representatives election in Berlin will take place on September 20th.

Wegner had previously announced his withdrawal from the top candidacy for the election. There had been calls for his resignation from his own party. The reason was a debate about false information about his crisis management during the major power outage in southwest Berlin at the beginning of January. Wegner initially failed to mention that he had played tennis for an hour at lunchtime on the first day of the crisis. He also gave untrue information about his daily routine, such as: Daily Mirror revealed. This placed increasing strain on the CDU’s election campaign.

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