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CDU leader in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania resigns after election defeat
Daniel Peters stepped down from the regional leadership after the CDU failed to enter the next state parliament. Philipp Amthor will take over on an interim basis until a party convention expected early next year.
The CDU in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania moved to reshape its regional leadership after Sunday’s election setback. According to Der Spiegel, Daniel Peters announced his resignation as state party chairman during a meeting of the regional executive in Schwerin.
With Peters as the party’s lead candidate, the CDU won 4.9% of the vote and will not be represented in the next state parliament. Der Spiegel reported that Philipp Amthor is set to take over temporarily until a state party convention at the beginning of next year. He had been serving as deputy regional chairman and is also a minister of state at the Chancellery for cooperation between the federal government and the states.
According to the magazine, Peters said that after such a heavy defeat and disastrous result, responsible politics required him to draw personal consequences. He also expressed confidence that the CDU would continue to play an important role in the state.
Der Spiegel noted that Peters had taken over the regional party leadership and the parliamentary group leadership in 2024, succeeding state lawmaker Franz-Robert Liskow, who had unexpectedly announced his resignation earlier that year.
Regional CDU secretary-general Katy Hoffmeister also resigned, Der Spiegel reported. Ann Christin von Allwörden, one of the party’s four deputy state chairpersons, had already stepped down beforehand.
Amthor described the result as a painful defeat and the hardest historical moment for the CDU in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, but said, according to Der Spiegel, that it was not Daniel Peters’s personal defeat. He also said he would have preferred Peters and Hoffmeister to remain in their posts.
He added that the party now needs time to process the result and that it would not be appropriate to present an immediate analysis, but instead to carry one out in an orderly procedure. Asked by a journalist, he said the CDU was not finished and would learn from the defeat, as quoted by Der Spiegel.
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