Lushi was an outrageously bad candidate but it’s ridiculous how the CDU “lost” the election because of him and not because of 16 years of standstill, Mask deal affairs, Azerbaijan affairs, purposely badly designed laws and incompetence (Altmaier, Scheuer, Klöckner, VdL,…).
I’m putting “lost” in quotation marks because 24% is hardly a “debacle” if you keep the Union’s track record in mind.
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Let me add some comments to the article. Hendrik Wüst, Armin Laschet’s successor as prime minister of NRW, had to quit his position as general secretary in 2010 because he had his own little corruption affair. Companies were offered 1-on-1 talks with the party if they booked a big enough booth on the party convention. [German Article](https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2010-02/wuest-ruecktritt-nrw)
Jens Spahn, the likely new party chief of the CDU is provenly corrupt too. He bought nonfunctional masks for one billion Euro and suggested to dispose them by giving them away to the socially-disadvantaged. ([Article](https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/deutschland/politik/corona-spahn-masken-spd-100.html)). He was also praised for his “unbureaucratic” way of allocating masks. Turns out it was unbureaucratic because he bought them from his husband’s company and some party friends’ companies. (There’s a wikipedia article about it)
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Lushi was an outrageously bad candidate but it’s ridiculous how the CDU “lost” the election because of him and not because of 16 years of standstill, Mask deal affairs, Azerbaijan affairs, purposely badly designed laws and incompetence (Altmaier, Scheuer, Klöckner, VdL,…).
I’m putting “lost” in quotation marks because 24% is hardly a “debacle” if you keep the Union’s track record in mind.
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edit: spelling
edit:
Let me add some comments to the article. Hendrik Wüst, Armin Laschet’s successor as prime minister of NRW, had to quit his position as general secretary in 2010 because he had his own little corruption affair. Companies were offered 1-on-1 talks with the party if they booked a big enough booth on the party convention. [German Article](https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2010-02/wuest-ruecktritt-nrw)
Jens Spahn, the likely new party chief of the CDU is provenly corrupt too. He bought nonfunctional masks for one billion Euro and suggested to dispose them by giving them away to the socially-disadvantaged. ([Article](https://www.mdr.de/nachrichten/deutschland/politik/corona-spahn-masken-spd-100.html)). He was also praised for his “unbureaucratic” way of allocating masks. Turns out it was unbureaucratic because he bought them from his husband’s company and some party friends’ companies. (There’s a wikipedia article about it)