From now on, the LSU will also have the right to submit motions and speak at party conferences and is represented with its federal chairman on the CDU Federal Executive Committee as well as with its state chairmen on the CDU state executive committees, thus allowing it to exert more direct influence on LGBTI-political decisions of the party. The process of recognizing the LSU as an official party organization was initiated under the former CDU chairwoman Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. Since this required an amendment to the CDU's statutes, which list the official intra-party associations and organizations, it could only be changed by a party conference resolution. Kramp-Karrenbauer had, among other things, set up a structure and statutes commission for this purpose. The recognition of the LSU would actually have been implemented earlier, but no in-person party conference could take place in the past two and a half years due to the pandemic. Resolutions on motions, especially those that amend the statutes, therefore had to be postponed repeatedly.
With the recommendation for approval from the CDU federal executive committee, the time had finally come. On Friday evening, around one thousand party congress delegates voted almost unanimously in favor of the intraparty status of the LSU and the RCDS (Ring of Christian-Democratic Students) as so-called special organizations. Nationwide, CDU members in many state and district associations are active in the LSU, advocating within the Union for the concerns of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, trans, and intersex people (LGBTI). They thus serve as a link between the queer community and the CDU as Germany’s largest people's party.
