Overview

• Ministerpräsident Hendrik Wüst told delegates that a large share of North Rhine-Westphalia’s portion of the federal infrastructure special fund will flow to municipalities.
• The federal special fund for infrastructure and climate neutrality totals €500 billion over twelve years, according to the party’s presentation.
• Wüst seeks another term as state CDU chair at the Bonn party congress, with the vote expected later in the day.
• Chancellor and CDU leader Friedrich Merz opened the meeting to rally the roughly 680 voting delegates before the local contests.
• Party leaders urged adoption of motions on elevating Bonn’s federal role, expanding a regional cybersecurity hub, combating antisemitism, stronger online child protection, family train reservations, an opt‑out organ donation system, police tasers, and opposition to a local packaging tax, as analysts warn the AfD could gain in the municipal vote.