Abstract

After casting off its longstanding collaboration with the communist regime, the East German CDU came together with other conservative groups in a so-called Alliance for Germany. With the help of the West German CDU, it mounted a professional election campaign promising freedom, a social market economy, and rapid unification.

CDU Election Promises (January 22, 1990)

Source

CDU: The Party of the Middle

CDU: Turn to the Future

OPPOSED TO EXTREMISM FROM THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT

Fight with us:

For a free, democratic state under the rule of law, through a separation of powers between the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, and through control of them!

Free elections with equal opportunities for all parties

Elimination of the SED domination of the media

No party organizations in factories and institutions

Education based on parental rights and the individuality of the child

Nonviolent resolution of conflicts between individuals, groups, and countries

For a social market economy – not socialist experiments!

Performance should finally be able to flourish and should pay off

Performance is the prerequisite for a genuine social policy

Prosperity in a healthy environment

Social justice instead of communist leveling

Sound old age pension plans instead of meager pittance pensions

– A solidarity community of the elderly, the socially weak, and the disabled in the great family of all citizens

An end to the state of emergency in the health care sector and the establishment of an effective health care system

Preservation and reconstruction of our crumbling cities and villages

For German unity in freedom and self-determination!

The growing together of the German states as the motor for the process of European unification

Peace as domestic and foreign policy

Step-by-step détente and disarmament

Security for our neighbors – absolute acceptance of the existing borders

WITH THE CDU

FOR A UNITED, PEACEFUL, DEMOCRATIC, AND ECONOMICALLY SOUND GERMANY WITHIN A UNITED EUROPE.

Source: “CDU – Die Partei der Mitte. CDU – Umkehr in die Zukunft“, flyer, January 22, 1990.

Translation: Allison Brown