The weak performance in the state elections in Thuringia have taken several CDU politicians as an opportunity to address the party leadership - now also reports the former Hessian Prime Minister Roland Koch (CDU) to speak. In the conservative magazine "Cicero" Koch wrote that the "abstention of the leadership and especially of the Chancellor" should cease.
He further wrote that the Union must again have the courage to say that "indecent behavior is not an expression of modernity" - and does not permanently compromise on formal formulas. In so doing, the party is narrowing the social debate and leaving it more and more to the parties at the outer edges of the political spectrum.
It makes popular parties that they developed distinctive positions, justified them and sought partners to enforce. In the beginning, there must be a clear position - not the compromise, said Koch.
Support from Spahn and Seehofer
Prior to Koch, ex-Union faction leader Friedrich Merz had denounced the historically weak 21.8 percent as "a big vote of no confidence" against the grand coalition in Berlin. In addition, Merz complained of "inaction and the lack of leadership" by Chancellor Angela Merkel. Unionfraktionsvize Carsten Linnemann had also criticized Merkel this week.
Federal Chancellor Merkel receives support from Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) and Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU). If he looks at the midterm review of the grand coalition, "then I think, this federal government has implemented quite a lot," said CDU Bureau member Spahn.
Seehofer also emphasized on the sidelines of the G6 Conference of Interior Ministers in Munich: "The Union is unquestionably in a difficult position, I do not share the criticism of Friedrich Merz."
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