SPIEGEL survey: majority of Union supporters for primary election of Chancellor candidate

Actually, CDU chief Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has the first right to access the chancellor candidate of the Union parties. That's the unwritten rule. In recent months, however, dissatisfaction with the chairman has grown among the party and the population.

Now the Junge Union is debating this weekend at its annual meeting ("Deutschlandtag"), whether it should make an application for the primary election of chancellor candidates at the CDU federal party congress in November. For the Union, that would be a grassroots novelty.

A poll conducted by opinion polling agency Civey for DER SPIEGEL shows that a small majority of the Union's supporters favor such a primary vote (52 percent). About a third of them were very decisive and replied to the corresponding question with "Yes, definitely".

CDU leader Kramp-Karrenbauer has been repeatedly criticized in recent months for her comments and political mishaps. With her surprising move to the Ministry of Defense in the summer, the CDU politician could collect so far no sympathy points in the population.

According to another SPIEGEL survey, it has continued to slip in favor of voters. The suitability Kramp-Karrenbauers for the Chancellery has been debated for some time.

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According to current planning, the CDU wants to nominate the chancellor candidate or the chancellor candidate for the 2021 general election at the party congress in late 2020. Kramp-Karrenbauer advised her party not to ask the base the K question. The CDU has "always said with good reasons that it does not follow this path," she said.

CSU boss Markus Söder has spoken out in an interview with SPIEGEL against the primary election of the chancellor candidate: "It can not be that a union sister by primary vote determines a candidate for chancellor and the other can only give a nod."

On Sunday , the Union parties are still ahead and still reach around 28 percent. In second place, the Greens continue to land with about 22 percent. The Social Democrats are third with 14 percent.