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