page_title: David McAllister
section_title: Political career
hierarchical_section_title: David McAllister / Political career
caption_attribution_description: XX am 27. Januar 2008 David McAllister Zukunftsland Niedersachsen. CDU Abbildung: Porträtfoto - Stimmkreuze - Niedersachsenross Plakatart: Kandidaten-/Personenplakat mit Porträt Objekt-Signatur: 10-008&#160;: 1610 Bestand: Landtagswahlplakate Niedersachsen (10-008) GliederungBestand10-18: Landtagswahlplakate Niedersachsen (10-008)&#160;» CDU Lizenz: KAS/ACDP 10-008&#160;: 1610 CC-BY-SA 3.0 DE
context_page_description: David James "Mac" McAllister is a German politician and member of the European Parliament from Germany. He is a member of the Christian Democratic Union, part of the European People's Party. He is the current Vice President of the European People's Party and he is also Vice Chairman of the International Democrat Union. He was appointed Chair of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee in February 2017.
  On 1 July 2010 McAllister was elected Minister-President of the state of Lower Saxony, succeeding Christian Wulff, who resigned following his election as President of Germany. Until his election defeat on 19 February 2013, he headed a coalition government with the liberal FDP, the Cabinet McAllister. In the 2014 European elections, McAllister was elected a Member of the European Parliament as the CDU's top candidate in Lower Saxony.
  A lawyer by profession, he served as chairman of the CDU parliamentary group in the Lower Saxon Parliament from 2003 to 2010 and was elected chairman of the state party in 2008. In November 2016 he left the chairman post, and announced that he sees his political future in Europe. McAllister holds both German and British citizenship.
context_section_description: From 1996 till 2010, McAllister was a member of the Cuxhaven district council (Kreistag). He served as mayor of his hometown of Bad Bederkesa from 2001 to 2002. From 2002 to 2003, he also was secretary general of the CDU in Lower Saxony. Since 2003, McAllister has served as the leader of the CDU parliamentary party group in the Parliament of Lower Saxony, of which he has been a member since 1998. McAllister succeeded Christian Wulff as party chairman of the CDU in Lower Saxony from June 2008 until November 2016. He was succeeded by Bernd Althusmann. In the United Kingdom, McAllister is a supporter of the Conservative Party.
  In 2005, Chancellor Angela Merkel offered him the position of Secretary General of the CDU, but McAllister declined, arguing he did not want to rise too far too fast. He was a CDU delegate to the Federal Convention for the purpose of electing the President of Germany in 2004, 2009, 2010 and 2012.
caption: McAllister in an electoral poster for the 2008 Lower Saxony state election.
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