Cdu Contests New Mid-Group

Sueddeutsche Zeitung

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A merger of liberal Christian Democrats calls on the party to delimit itself more clearly from the AfD and reaps irritated reactions. Now, however, the initiators also get support.

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At first glance, citizens could believe that something is finally happening at the CDU and that there are serious aspirations to lead this party back to a bourgeois party whose principles are based on Christianity and the social market economy in the sense of a Ludwig Erhard. In any case, it was communicated to the public via radio and newspapers that a new circle was formed within the CDU, which calls itself "Compass Mitte". But as with the CDU…

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The chairman of the Christian Democratic Employees' Association (CDA), Dennis Radtke, defended the new "Compass Center" initiative within the CDU against criticism. "I am surprised by the vehemence of the backlash," Radtke, who did not sign the appeal himself, told the Süddeutsche Zeitung. "It is astonishing that precisely those who complained about a lack of debate under Angela Merkel are now reinterpreting every debate on substantive issues as…