Why the CDU Party Congress cannot decide on the coalition agreement

Sueddeutsche Zeitung

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Actually, the thousand delegates should be allowed to decide on the contract with the SPD. At the last moment, that was changed.

berliner-sonntagsblatt.de

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The chairman of the CDU parliamentary group of the Saxon State Parliament, Christian Hartmann, is in favour of a broad intraparty debate on the coalition agreement. “I don't think it's wise that the Federal Committee should decide on the coalition agreement in the future,” he told the newspapers of the Bavarian Media Group. “My opinion on this has not changed since the Federal Party Congress — quite the opposite.” Hartmann spoke against a corres…