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After Spahn’s resignation: Union is looking for new group head – internal discussions

Chancellor Merz wants to clarify the personnel quickly.

Reliability 66 · high52 min agoJuly 20, 2026

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Chancellor Merz wants to clarify the personnel quickly. In addition, further personnel decisions could be due. “It could be an opportunity to think again about the setup of the Federal government,” Merz said in the ZDF “summer interview”. This circumvented the two a ban in Germany, which Spahn as a CDU politician has supported.

Furthermore, Merz now has the chance to free himself “in the cabinet from all those who have craft weaknesses and from those who are ideologically bored”. Surrogate motherhood in Germany is prohibited.

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Chancellor Merz wants to clarify the personnel quickly.
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In addition, further personnel decisions could be due. “It could be an opportunity to think again about the setup of the Federal government,” Merz said in the ZDF “summer interview”.
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CDU chief and Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz wants to quickly regulate the succession of Spahn and has already held talks with CSU chief Markus Söder at the weekend.
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This circumvented the two a ban in Germany, which Spahn as a CDU politician has supported.
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Merz now has the chance to free himself “in the cabinet from all those who have craft weaknesses and from those who are ideologically bored”.
reliability low1/2 sources