Michael Kretschmer, Minister President of Saxony, has been re-elected as chairman of the CDU in Saxony. The 50-year-old received 83.04 percent of the vote at a party conference in Leipzig. He did not have a rival candidate.
In the previous election in 2023, around 89% of delegates voted for Kretschmer. He achieved his best result in 2019 with 95.5%. During the coronavirus pandemic in 2021, he had suffered a setback with 76.35%.
The state executive committee is elected every two years. 230 delegates attended the party conference at the Congress Center at Leipziger Messe.
As a guest at the party conference, Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) gave a welcoming address in which he defended his tightened migration policy and condemned violence against police officers during protests against the founding of a new AfD youth organization in Giessen.
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