Your series of ancestors is impressive. Rita Süssmuth, who everyone knows, Helga Wex, who is almost forgotten, for ten years Annette Widmann-Mauz-pioneers for women in the Union. Now Nina Warken continues to carry the torch, the knowledge: the Union needs more women. And more women’s union.
Warken, now Minister of Health in the Federal Cabinet of Friedrich Merz, belongs to the Federal Executive Board of the CDU as chairwoman of the Women’s Union. Bringing more female perspectives in politics: the 46-year-old has plans to do a lot. True to the motto of Aenne Brauksiepe, chairwoman from 1958 to 1971, Federal Minister such as Warken: “Farm like a lady, fight like a battletross.”
The fact that Warken is also also the CDU general secretary in Baden-Württemberg can prove to be trend-setting. As she creates the election campaign for 2026, women in the Union can help. Even if she was to hand over this office soon, Warken has been able to lay the foundations.
It will be measured against basic progress. The lack of female leaders in the CDU is already blatant. He is reminiscent of Helmut Kohl and Heiner Geißler, who postulated full -bodied decades ago, “Pashas and Bonzen” had to be “bumped into the throne”. This order still applies today.
Because that is a fact: the leadership of the ministries for finance, internal, defense and external – men. In the coalition committee – ten men and one woman. In the closest management area around Merz in the Chancellery – only men. And men form the top of the parliamentary group, as chairman and first parliamentary managing director.
The Women’s Union has around 95,000 members, it even indicates considerably more, in any case it is the Union’s highest membership. Friedrich Merz, to a certain extent, should say something in the party chairmanship.
Source: Tagesspiegel
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