style market capitalism. But Kauder said the Christian Democrats had no intention of becoming embroiled in a discussion which would only help the government. "We're always being asked why we haven't taken a more offensive line with this debate," Kauder said. "Muentefering would have achieved his goal if we had started a big argument about it," he told Reuters in an interview. Kauder, a brisk 55-year-old from the firmly conservative state of Baden-Wuerttemberg in Germany's southwest, took over as party manager last year with a mandate to get the CDU back into election-winning shape after it wobbled badly in late 2004. A former parliamentary floor leader, Kauder has focused on preventing a repeat of the open infighting that plagued the conservatives last year. --more 2326 Local Time 2026 GMT
