A few days before the Bundestag elections, the East German CDU state associations have reaffirmed their support for the Union's candidate for chancellor, Friedrich Merz. Friedrich Merz knows East Germany, said party colleague and Saxony-Anhalt Economics Minister Sven Schulze at an election campaign event in Halle (Saale).
The Union Minister Presidents of the new federal states, the CDU parliamentary group leader in the Brandenburg state parliament, Jan Redmann, and Bundestag member Philipp Amthor for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern presented him with the paper "Gemeinsam anpacken. For a new start in the east". In it, the CDU calls for, among other things, a start-up grant for East Germany as a pilot project for the Federal Republic and measures to increase the proportion of East Germans in management positions.
