Kretschmer: Policy change possible with CDU cabinet list

Saxony's Minister President Michael Kretschmer (CDU) has welcomed the proposals for the future members of the federal cabinet from his party. "A change in policy is really possible with this personnel," he said before meetings of the CDU's top committees in Berlin. The personnel proposals were encouraging. They are people who have shown "that they can do it" in business, state and economic policy.

Brandenburg's CDU state chairman Jan Redmann said: "We will have a whole range of personalities with an East German biography in the federal government, both at ministerial level and at the level of parliamentary state secretaries." The designated Minister of Economic Affairs, Katherina Reiche, is a native of Brandenburg. She was also politically active in Brandenburg for many years. "In this respect, the East is represented."

Saxony-Anhalt CDU leader Sven Schulze said that the coalition agreement between the CDU/CSU and SPD would receive a great deal of approval at the CDU's small party conference in Berlin this afternoon. It is important that things get started now.

In addition to the prospective Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU), the Christian Democrats are sending four male and three female ministers to the cabinet table. Merz presented the list during a CDU presidium meeting in Berlin.