Ex-parliamentary group vice Kerstin Seitz leaves Hanover CDU
She gets used to the word with her voters. But now, at the end of the council period, Kerstin Seitz has left the CDU. “I lack the team spirit in the party,” says the 65-year-old, who was the financial policy spokeswoman for the previous council group.
When the council meets for its first constituent meeting on Thursday, no one from the previous parliamentary group will be there. Jens Seidel, like his deputies Jens-Michael Emmelmann and Seitz, had decided not to run again. Unlike the committed local politician from Misburg, the two men will remain in the CDU.
With Seitz, so she assures, the move has nothing at all to do with disappointment in the list. “I announced months ago that I would not run again in the local elections.” She finds it difficult to leave the party after almost 30 years. But: “Many only see themselves.” Political work is determined by egoism.
With Seitz, Hanover’s CDU lost the well-known comrade-in-arms within a few months (she had also played a role in national politics as an assessor in the federal board of the local political association). First district council politician Sabine Dudda turned her back on the party after twelve years. You can no longer recommend the CDU in your district of Ahlem-Badenstedt-Davenstedt, she said.
Jeschke complains of personal injuries
Councilwoman Georgia Jeschke went next. The doctor, who had been in the city council for the CDU since 2011 and in the Herrenhausen-Stöcken district council for 15 years, wanted to run again, but the party supports a man in front of her. She speaks of months of hostility and personal injuries.
Oppelt: “Modern People’s Party”
Party leader Maximilian Oppelt rejects the allegations that the CDU has a problem with strong women. He emphasizes that for the first time in the history of the Hanoverian CDU, as many women as men were elected to the district executive: “Ten women and ten men, 20 strong personalities. This shows once again that the CDU Hanover is a modern people’s party for the whole city. “
Whether or not it really is will also be tied to its course in the Council. The CDU, whose new parliamentary group leader is Felix Semper, has 13 seats. Only two of them went to women – Britta Waase and Johanna Chowaniec.
From Vera König