Söder's rejection
For a moment it sounded as if the Chancellor was already talking.
"My position is clear," said Armin Laschet.
"I want a modern Germany." Then he spoke about
climate change
,
educational justice
and the
destructive power of the AfD
.
He would, said Laschet, commit himself with a "European commitment" in the coming weeks.
No candidate spoke, a statesman spoke.
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Markus Söder
Photo: Peter Kneffel / dpa
For a moment it seemed as if Armin Laschet had fought his way out of his personal depression, out of malice, the tearfulness, out of the survey depression.
Before that, the important bodies of his party, the
presidium and the board of directors, had caressed his soul
.
The majority of them spoke out in favor of him.
Armin Laschet, ennobled him by Wolfgang Schäuble, bring everything with him to face the challenges of a candidate for chancellor.
Laschet announced at his press conference that he will be on the phone with Markus Söder today.
For a moment he actually believed the die had been cast.
A few hours later the transport
from Munich
, wrapped in whispering words.
He appreciates Armin Laschet very much, says Söder at his press conference, in order to give the praised person a stomach-wrench in the same breath.
"It usually is," he said.
"When the party executive makes a decision, there is a euphoric mood at the grassroots level."
In any case, there was no decision with him "in the quick-start process," said Söder, he wanted to look at everything first, and a decision could then be made by the end of the week.
What was that?
One who cannot let go of the claim to power?
It is clear that Markus Söder can hardly win anymore.
It is unimaginable that the CDU should push its newly elected chairman from the throne, it would be the true destruction of the CDU that the YouTuber Rezo had once conjured up.
But it is also clear that Söder has little to lose.
In surveys he is unmatchable, in Bavaria he has a royal aura, nobody there would take it against him if he stayed.
But on the contrary.
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Armin Laschet
Photo: Sean Gallup / POOL / EPA
So Söder can,
in the next few days, give a voice to those who are very concerned about the party, who are facing the loss of the Chancellery and possibly their mandate in the Bundestag, who have their massive doubts about Laschet,
without loss of reputation
.
Söder can reveal how torn and divided the CDU is.
For him, it would be the satisfaction he needs to finally hand over the candidacy with grandeur to the rival from Düsseldorf.
At the same time, it is a risky maneuver: Söder
jeopardizes the harmony he has just regained with the sister party
.
This meets with incomprehension even in his camp.
And Armin Laschet?
He would leave the duel as a wounded winner, who would then be faced with the great task of filling up the trenches that Söder has just opened.
After all: the
ability to reconcile
should be one of
Laschet's core competencies
.
He could then use it right away.
A new round of the duel will take place this afternoon when the Bundestag faction made up of the CDU and CSU meets.
Here the mood should not speak so clearly for Armin Laschet, there are more Söder fans in the CDU than in the party committees.
It could be momentum for the CSU boss, albeit a temporary one.
It was unclear whether Laschet and Söder would appear in the meeting yesterday until late in the evening.
The top of the group was still advising.
Chancellor candidate dispute at CDU and CSU: The Söder maneuver
Hope for Russia
It is not often that people in Berlin
look
at
Russian foreign policy
with benevolence
, let alone with great expectation.
But when Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov travels to Tehran today, then there is Western hope that he can calm the heated mood in Iran a little - and
suggest to
his interlocutors, President
Hassan Rouhani
and Foreign Minister
Javad Zarif
, that
negotiations have
just resumed
to press
ahead with
international nuclear agreements
.
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Natan's nuclear facility
Photo: Planet Labs Inc./AP / dpa
Finally, it looked for the revitalization of the agreement, after the change of president now also in the
United States
have an interest again, not good: Only on Saturday in the deeply bunkered in a mountain had
nuclear plant Natanz
solemnly
new centrifuges for uranium enrichment
in operation gone.
It was a deliberate violation of the nuclear deal.
A "problem in the power grid" was reported in the plant on Sunday.
As reported by the Israeli media, it was apparently a cyber attack by the Israeli Mossad.
The situation threatens to escalate, which is why Lavrov, the experienced diplomat's trip, can
actually be a defuse
.
In Berlin they keep their fingers crossed for Russia.
Rare enough.
Uranium enrichment in Natans: Iran's foreign minister now officially accuses Israel of attacking a nuclear facility
Vikings in court
The
trial against a strange troop begins today in the
high-security wing on the grounds of the
Stuttgart-Stammheim correctional facility
.
Their presumed leader
Frank H.
was known for the fact that he sometimes
marched through the center of Munich
wearing a Viking helmet and crossed axes
.
At the same time, the Attorney General accuses him and his eleven alleged perpetrators and supporters of planning nothing less than to undermine the state and social order of the Federal Republic of Germany.
According to the accusation, they wanted to carry out
attacks on asylum seekers, Muslims and politicians
in small
detachments.
The names of the Green politicians Robert Habeck and Anton Hofreiter were mentioned, with the addition "eliminated immediately!".
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Interior Minister Horst Seehofer
Photo: Carsten Koall / Getty Images
Was it just a fantasy of deluded people or was the
right-wing terrorist group
already involved in the actual planning of the attack?
That is the core question that the
5th criminal division of the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court will
address.
The case is symptomatic of a development in the extremist area: the perpetrators no longer necessarily come from a scene that has grown over the years, but from very different currents that at first glance do not have to have anything to do with neo-Nazis.
With the help of social networks on the Internet, they come together, often spontaneously, and radicalize themselves, often rapidly.
The authorities are finding it increasingly difficult to recognize in good time what is brewing here and there.
Prevention is therefore the magic word, but the
grand coalition
is currently
in the process of putting
an
important project in the sand that
would promote precisely this prevention.
The
"Fortified Democracy Act"
, that the
financial support civic engagement against extremism
should increase had, Family Minister Franziska Giffey (SPD) and Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) negotiated laboriously.
But the Union suddenly announces "fundamental reservations" and refuses to give its consent.
This is not only an affront to party friend Seehofer, who was "immensely disappointed" with his parliamentary group in SPIEGEL, it is also a sign that the much-invoked fight against the right is not being taken too seriously.
From today you can find out what such an attitude leads to in Stammheim.
Alleged right-wing terrorists of the "Group S.": "Ready for a massacre"
Loser of the day ...
... is
Sahra Wagenknecht
.
Actually, she is a winner because she is able to market her own books like no other.
Her latest, entitled »The Self-Righteous«, is not yet officially on the market (unofficially already) and may not be reviewed yet.
But because many theses from it are already in circulation, the political bubble has long been talking about it.
Also because Wagenknecht's theses are
simple, well-known, but provocative
: The left has lost contact with its base and with it its real concerns.
Fridays for Future, apparently at one point, operated climate protection only as an alibi.
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Sahra Wagenknecht
Photo: Marcel Kusch / dpa
These are undifferentiated allegations that ultimately harm the new party leadership in particular.
Wagenknecht knows that and she has apparently priced it in, in favor of personal success.
So far, she has not initiated a constructive discourse with her aggressive work.
That's why she's a loser for me.
Trouble in the left: Wagenknecht's disruptive fire
Advice of the day…
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Hundreds of people protested and sporting events were canceled
One dead and one injured in gunfire at high school in Tennessee:
There was an exchange of fire at a school in Tennessee.
An armed schoolboy was killed and a police officer injured.
Only last week the state had eased the gun law
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I wish you an eventful Tuesday!
Your Martin Knobbe
