Mike Mohring was elected with 94.2 percent of the votes to Spitzenkadidat of the CDU in the state Parliament election in Thuringia. The Christian Democrats want in the government.

Erfurt – Thuringia’s CDU moves in with Mike Mohring as the top candidate in the state election on 27. October. The 47-year-old party boss, was elected on Saturday by a meeting of delegates in Erfurt to the top of the country list. He received 94.2 percent of the votes cast. The election took place at the second attempt. You had to because of an error, and that a guest had cast his vote wrongly, repeatedly.

By the Opposition in the government – red-Red-Green

Mohring, has completed a few weeks ago, a self-made public cancer-treatment, to replace the CDU wants to bring the state election back to the government. Aim of the detachment of Red-Red-Green in Thuringia and the formation of a bourgeois government, he said. The basis for this by winning the seats had to be placed in all the 44 constituencies. “It’s not for me. It’s not about how it is, Mike Mohring,“ he said.

The CDU chief thanked in his speech for the support, the support and the many personal Gestures, of which he had received during his chemotherapy. This gave him courage.

The CDU, which has since reunification almost 25 years, the Minister President in Thuringia is since 2014 in the opposition role in the Parliament. Polls you can see currently at 28 percent in Thuringia. In 2014, she had received at the state election as the strongest party of 33.5 percent.

dpa