Philipp Amthor (center) cut a cake for the CDU‘s 80th birthday in Schlauroth with State Minister for Education Conrad Clemens (right) and Florian Oest. Photo: Matthias Wehnert
Jänkendorf / Schlauroth. The Görlitz CDU district association held its annual general meeting on November 15th in the rooms of Lift Manager GmbH in Jänkendorf.
The members decided on an initiative proposal for the “Agenda 2030”, which deals, among other things, with the future shape of the welfare state, the financial situation of the municipalities and questions of economic and energy policy from an East German perspective. In addition, attention was drawn to the burden on social insurance and its impact on additional wage costs. While the Junge Union’s lack of support in the federal government creates a liability for Chancellor Friedrich Merz when it comes to pension financing, Member of Parliament Florian Oest addressed this balancing act in the press release with the guiding principle that also appears to be applicable to life benefits: “More attention for the people who make our welfare state possible in the first place.”
The district association also adopted new statutes. It introduces the possibility of member surveys and is intended to adapt organizational processes so that political commitment is better compatible with professional and family requirements.
The CDU took advantage of the presence of party celebrities in the evening at the Büchner car dealership in Schlauroth for an evening of discussions with the new Parliamentary State Secretary in the new Ministry for Digitalization and State Modernization, Philipp Amthor MdB. Görlitz’s mayor Octavian Ursu took the opportunity to point out Amthor’s expectations that he considered a planning acceleration law to be urgently necessary. Philipp Amthor himself had the rare gift in politics of making a pleasingly short keynote speech both rhetorically fluid and dense. However, the spectrum of his statements caused the expected focus on digitalization to take a back seat. However, with regard to the CSU, Amthor scored points with a lot of catching up to do in the East with the remark that infrastructure does not only have to arrive in Bavaria. With regard to credibility in politics, Amthor also gained sympathy points by complaining about the excessive postal economy. Unfortunately, no one in the audience thought of questioning whether he was also including his own area of responsibility for digitalization, which could well be located in departments such as digital affairs and transport or in the areas of internal affairs or economics. One cup went completely past the CDU that evening: that of the de facto solidarity with the Left. On the board of the newly founded Jugendring Landkreis Görlitz eV, Johann Wagner and Max Hilse (both CDU) are joined by Julia Schlüter (most recently Rabryka) and Dorothea Schneider, who, with an eye on eV in Zittau, is carrying out projects in the style of the Amadeu Antonio Foundation and a completely one-sided interpretation of democracy. The topic of pensions caught up with Amthor right from the start, because one of the discussants would have liked to pin him down on promises that are currently threatening to tear the CDU apart internally. In the end, there was still enough time for socializing or small talk over bratwurst from our own warehouse, which Rothenburg’s mayor Philipp Eichler took care of.
