Kramp-Karrenbauer: Because the challenges are different. We have a party platform from 2007, that was the year the first iPhone was released. If we want to adjust that platform to reflect current realities, that can only be done with the necessary room to maneuver. I am convinced that Angela Merkel also intends to give it to me, otherwise she wouldn't have given me this task. [...]
Kramp-Karrenbauer: All big-tent parties reflect what is happening in society, namely the fact that we are continuing to individualize. The question as to what holds us together is becoming increasingly difficult to answer. In the 1960s, the Catholics voted for the CDU and the workers voted for the SPD, but these old certainties no longer apply. That is why the parties have to be even more convincing with their answers to present-day problems. [...]
Kramp-Karrenbauer: If I were to identify one large mistake made in recent years, it would be that the CDU and the CSU (Eds: the Christian Social Union, the CDU's Bavarian sister party) were obviously unable to find a joint position on the issue of refugees. It was only after the election that were we able to squeeze out a compromise.
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