Federal party conference of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany
The CDU Federal Party Congress is the highest body of the CDU in Germany . It is convened by the federal board and meets at least every two years. It must also be convened if requested by the federal committee or at least one third of the CDU regional associations.
The list of CDU federal party conferences contains an overview of all party conventions . The most recent federal party conference of the CDU took place on December 7th and 8th, 2018 in Hamburg; the delegates elected Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as the new CDU party leader to succeed Angela Merkel . The penultimate CDU federal party congress met on February 25 and 26, 2018 in Berlin, where the coalition agreement for the 19th parliamentary term of the Bundestag between the CDU, CSU and SPD was discussed and passed. At the previous party congress, 5. – 7. December 2016 in Essen, the Federal Chairwoman Angela Merkel, who has been in office since 2000, ran for re-election and for candidate for chancellor and was re-elected with a result of 89.5 percent.
Responsibilities
The federal party congress determines the basic policy of the CDU, adopts the party program and decides on the statutes of the CDU. The resolutions passed are the basis for the political work of the CDU parliamentary groups and the CDU-led governments in the Federal Republic of Germany and in the federal states. The decision on the outcome of coalition negotiations has also been anchored in the statute since the end of 2018. The federal party congress receives the reports of the federal executive committee, the CDU / CSU faction of the German Bundestag and the CDU / CSU group in the European parliament .
The federal party conference elects the federal executive every two years and the general secretary every four years. It also elects the Federal Party Court , the auditors and, on the proposal of the Board of Directors, can elect honorary chairmen for life, who belong to all organs of the Federal Association with voting rights. The federal party congress is the only body that can dissolve the CDU or decide to merge with other parties.
Political decision-making
The application commission, which is convened by the federal executive committee and which submits the applications of the CDU members (at least 30) or organs of the party from the district level upwards, submits, supplements, calls or revises them, is responsible for the decision-making process at the federal party conference.
The influence of the federal executive is ensured by the appointment of the commission in advance, which the federal party congress still has to approve.
composition
The CDU party congress consists of the delegates from the CDU regional associations, the foreign associations and the honorary chairmen. The state associations send exactly 1,000 delegates who have to be elected by the state, district or district party conferences. The number of delegates that a regional association can send depends on the number of members of the association six months before the party congress and the result of the last federal election in the respective federal state . 800 delegates are sent in proportion to the number of members, 200 delegates in proportion to the second votes cast for the individual country lists of the CDU . The number of delegates is determined using the d'Hondt maximum number method . The foreign associations recognized by the federal executive committee each send a delegate to the party congress, regardless of their number of members.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Angela Merkel: "We are guided by love for our country." , Cdu.de, December 6, 2016
- ^ CDU party congress: worst result during Merkel's chancellorship , Die Welt , December 6, 2016
- ↑ Christian Democratic Union of Germany , collection of documents at the Federal Returning Officer, accessed on April 5, 2019.
- ^ Intra- party democracy in the CDU from 1973 to 1998 by Nadine Röser