Angela Merkel’s former chief of the Chancellery in Berlin starts his new role as “Chief Representative for Political and International Relations.” Ahead there were violent riots in the Lower Rhine CDU.
For Ronald Pofalla begins on Friday at 8.30 clock point a new phase of life: former close associates of Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) will refer to as the new chief lobbyist for the Bahn AG’s office at the railway Tower at Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. The “General Agents for Political and International Relations” (the official designation) will mainly seek to represent the interests of the state-owned company in Brussels.
In addition, it should the group representative of the federal states report, while he himself immediately Bahn CEO Ruediger Grube reported; both to join a friendly relationship.
When the RP made public in December 2013 that Pofalla would appear shorter politically, the excitement was huge, especially in the Lower Rhine CDU. For the former Chancellery Minister had only a few months earlier selected for the sixth time in a row in the constituency Kleve directly in the Bundestag. More than 50 percent of the vote he had achieved – a clear vote of confidence in the Union known politicians from Weeze. But Pofalla was lost to Merkel’s new cabinet available. “Family reasons” were called; it was said that Pofalla would start after two failed marriages with the lawyer Nina Hebisch a family. Pofalla itself did not comment on his plans. But soon circulated speculation about his transfer to the station.
Aggressive mood in the Lower Rhine CDU
While Pofalla still shrouded in silence, the mood in the Lower Rhine CDU was more aggressive; Party members accused him of even electoral fraud. If he would resign his seat in parliament, there is in this constituency no CDU direct candidates more in the Bundestag, criticized the Lower Rhine Union circuits full of bitterness.
At the same time nationwide a dispute erupted over whether politicians should go into business without blocking time. In the case Pofalla was the fact that it is a state enterprise. As Chancellery Minister Pofalla was “involved in all relevant ground-political issues,” according to the official version; by train pit boss he met 30 times together. Roch not after a conflict of interest? Were there betimes the course for the change careers of influential Merkel confidant made? The debate about the exchange has nevertheless causes Pofalla not immediately, but only now – after a year waiting period – completes the transformation. Shortly before Christmas, he was with Bundestag President Norbert Lammert (CDU) to tell him that at the end of his parliamentary mandate would end
In the days policy, Pofalla will not turn avowedly -. He has a long time to satisfy done. His career began with the CDU youth organization Junge Union; He was chairman of the CDU District Association Kleve and 2000-2014 Chief of the District Association Lower Rhine, whose honorary president he is since November.
As Secretary General, he was “24 hour, seven days” been on the road for his party, He said at the time. The Federal Chancellery was his last time no less grueling political Station (2009 to 2013). In this role, he indulged in some misstep. The desert abuse of the CDU’s internal affairs, Wolfgang Bosbach is as important as his hasty statement that the allegations in the affair of the US intelligence service NSA “off the table” are.
He had Angela Merkel to owe very much , Pofalla said in November 2014 during his political farewell before the CDU Niederrhein in Krefeld. But this parting was connected to him with a bitter defeat: Pofalla wished Federal Health Minister Hermann Gröhe as a successor to the district chairman. A majority of the delegates, however, decided otherwise and chose the Mönchengladbach Günter Krings. Insiders suggest that Pofalla so that a lesson should be missed that he had left “his” district about career plans in the dark.
Not later than 2017 Pofalla board member of the train and then in the areas of corporate governance, . be Data Privacy, Legal and Corporate Security responsible
The track career of Ronald Pofalla has just begun
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