Last Tuesday, the CDU Viersen decided on its personnel for the upcoming local elections this year. In the community center, the members present voted for their proposals for the 25 council electoral districts, the reserve list and nominated their candidates for the district council. There were no major surprises in the results. All candidates were elected with a large majority and without any opponents. Support for their mayoral candidate Christoph Hopp was also repeatedly emphasized. A party can hardly present more unity
At the New Year’s reception that followed in the forum of the community center, around 50 more guests came. Party leader Sebastian Acht welcomed the approximately 120 people present to the New Year. These included representatives from various clubs, fraternities and also the political competitors of the SPD and FDP, „with whom the CDU, unlike at the federal level, maintains good relations and successful cooperation,“ emphasizes Sebastian Acht.
Of course, the guests included the many princely couples, children’s princely couples, fools from the various carnival clubs and, at this time, also the newly crowned first female trio of the fool’s city of Dülken.
In his subsequent speech, Acht also addressed federal politics. He called for confidence for the new year and made it clear: „The traffic light coalition has failed miserably.“
Pay attention: “Instead of bold reforms, clear decisions and stable leadership, we have seen a government that is tumbling from chaos to chaos.
„The issues that concern us all – from the energy crisis to housing policy, from the economic situation to internal security – remain unresolved. The events on New Year’s Eve, the reports of massive job cuts in leading companies or the maximum overload of local authorities „Due to unregulated migration policies are examples of the grievances in our country.“
The chairman also expressed concern about a situation that is also causing problems for politics here locally: „You know what the worst thing about this whole mess is, it is not the failure. Not that I ever had great hopes that this government could be successful , no, the worst thing is that the citizens in large parts of the country have lost confidence in the democratic parties.“
The chairman also stressed that the personnel offer for the new year can and should bring confidence. „With Martin Plum as a candidate for the Bundestag, Bennet Gielen as a candidate for district administrator and Christoph Hopp for the office of mayor in Viersen, the CDU can look forward to three excellent personnel offers who are rooted in their homeland, who are human and approachable and who have the best possible qualifications for their office.
The CDU then awarded its “premiere medal” for the carnival session, which was first given to the princely couples and trios present. The image shows the silhouette of the Viersen district, adorned with a fool’s cap, the individual municipalities as confetti and the motto “Loyal to home, Jeck and Black”.