(GermanPolicy.com) – The outgoing CDU chairman Armin Laschet thanked the delegates at his party’s virtual CDU party conference and called for self-confidence and unity. You have to be well positioned for the upcoming state elections, he said. As his successor, Friedrich Merz is “just the right person at this time.” The previous General Secretary, Paul Ziemiak, pleaded for a new start and renewal of the CDU, which Merz’s new team is to ensure.