Who is leading the Union in the election campaign?
On Saturday it will be decided who will be the CDU representative.
Laschet, Röttgen and Merz are flirting with the chancellorship - but the CSU boss is allowed to have a say.
Berlin - The
next chancellor may warm up
at the
CDU party congress
.
For almost 16 years, the Union provided
Germany's head of government
with
Angela Merkel
- and of course the Union does not want that to change.
On Saturday, CDU delegates elect the new chairman of the
Christian Democratic Union
.
All three candidates are willing to be chancellor.
But the
CSU
still has a say.
This year, given Söder's self-confidence and polls, maybe a little more than usual. Even if Söder always emphasized that his place was in Bavaria.
Armin Laschet
, one of the three candidates for the
CDU chairmanship
, wants to
speak
openly with CSU boss
Markus Söder
about the question of the Union chancellor candidate if he is elected.
The head of the larger sister party is not automatically the one who leads the parties in the federal election campaign, he assured.
“No, that's not certain.
We will discuss that together, ”said Laschet on Thursday evening in the ZDF program“ Markus Lanz ”.
He will go into an "open" conversation.
Laschet and Söder recently presented themselves extremely harmoniously at the New Year's reception of the NRW CDU.
Before the CDU party congress: who will be a candidate for chancellor?
Laschet, Röttgen, Merz - or is it Söder?
The CSU has taken the helm twice: with Franz Josef Strauss in 1980 and Edmund Stoiber in 2002. Both
candidates for chancellor
failed.
Some political experts say: If the new
CDU chairman
surrenders his power option
to lead
the Union
to victory
in the
federal elections
directly to the CSU, this indicated a rather weak start.
At the same time, everyone emphasizes that they want to find the best solution for the Union in this “super election year 2021” with six state elections and federal elections.
Together.
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The three candidates fighting for the CDU party leadership: Armin Laschet, Friedrich Merz, Norbert Röttgen (from left)
© imago images / Frank Hoermann / Sven Simon (photo montage)
CDU candidate
Norbert Röttgen
has now just before the start of the party congress on Friday evening, affirmed his claim
to
be
a
candidate for chancellor
in the event of an election
.
The party's self-image is that the chairman will also take over the office of candidate for chancellor, said the foreign policy officer during a conversation in RTL's “Guten Morgen Deutschland”.
"The most important goal is that the Union candidate becomes the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany."
Norbert Röttgen wants to be a candidate for chancellor - but for that he would first have to become CDU chairman
Röttgen does not want to compete with the potential competitor of the CSU, Markus Söder.
“We are the first servants of the parties, that's what it's about.
And not about us and our egos. ”On Thursday he had
told
the
Rheinische Post
: In the event of his free choice as CDU chief, he would“ meet very quickly and confidentially with Söder and make a proposal at the appropriate time as to which
candidate
for the Union parties has the best chances with the voters. ”They would have known each other“ for decades ”.
The third in the competition,
Friedrich Merz
said on Thursday on NDR Info on the subject that a chancellor from the ranks of the sister party CSU was "theoretically" possible.
Merz also emphasizes
that this will be decided after the
CDU party conference
.
The final decision on who will be
candidate for chancellor
should not be made anytime soon.
It is said that one will
wait for
the two
state elections in Baden-Württemberg
and
Rhineland-Palatinate first
and probably sit down around Easter.
Before the CDU party congress: Who do the Germans think is fit for chancellor?
The Germans do not seem to consider any of the three
CDU candidates to
be really fit for chancellor.
A survey by the ZDF “Politbarometer” showed that only 29 percent of the participants found
Norbert Röttgen
or
Friedrich Merz
suitable as Chancellor.
A
few less, 28 percent, are in
favor of Armin Laschet
.
Markus Söder
,
who will also speak at the CDU party congress is the winner in the current survey with 54 percent who consider him suitable as chancellor.
When asked who is most likely to lead the CDU successfully into the future,
Friedrich Merz
clearly received the most votes, especially among Union supporters.
The “Political Barometer” is carried out by the Mannheim research group Elections.
For this survey, 1262 randomly selected voters were contacted by telephone.
(cibo / dpa)
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