The election of the CDU party chairman is imminent.
An FDP politician feels that a possible election of Friedrich Merz is not dangerous for his party.
The new CDU chairman will be elected on January 16.
Norbert Röttgen, Armin Laschet and Friedrich Merz are available.
An FDP politician considers the latter to be harmless to his party.
Munich / Stuttgart - Baden-Württemberg's FDP parliamentary group leader,
Hans-Ulbrich Rülke,
considers it harmless for his party if the CDU should elect the more economically liberal Friedrich Merz as party leader.
"I think that would be a relatively cheap option for us," said the FDP presidium member of the
German Press Agency (dpa)
in Stuttgart.
"Merz has something of a
blunder search engine
," Rülke continued.
Election of the CDU chairman: criticism of Merz: polls could "drop steeply down"
The CDU politician on stand almost no
interview
without misleading statements which then fell on his feet "When you then in the capacity of
chancellor candidate
makes, I can imagine how quickly sink the poll numbers sharply downward."
FDP parliamentary group leader: Merz a "faux pas search engine" https://t.co/PEH7Z3hRnk
- @SWPde_bot (@SWPde_bot) January 3, 2021
On January 16, the
CDU
elects
its new chairman.
In addition to Friedrich Merz, Armin Laschet, Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia and foreign expert Norbert Röttgen will also take part.
Rülke, who leads the south-west FDP as the top candidate in the
state elections
on March 14, compared Merz with the former SPD candidate for chancellor Martin Schulz.
Merz will "need approximately half as long as
Martin Schulz
to light the house".
Schulz first gave the SPD a high poll in the 2017 federal election campaign.
Then the values plummeted sharply.
For the SPD there was a historically bad result.
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Merz as CDU chancellor candidate?
FDP politician sees an advantage for his party
From Rülke's point of view, the
advantage of a
Merz candidate for chancellor
could be that with a weakened Union, a
Jamaica coalition
would come into play again.
"It can also be that the Greens remain so strong and Friedrich Merz becomes the Union's candidate for chancellor, then you need the FDP again." A Jamaica coalition is currently out of the question, as polls show that the CDU / CSU and the Greens together have a solid majority .
(came / dpa)
Friedrich Merz speaks out against the admission of refugees from camps in Greece or Bosnia.
The CDU presidency candidate also speaks about deportations to Syria.
