In Thuringia with the cancellation of the CDU to the left no coalition majority in sight. The first alternative is a minority government under former Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow. CDU country chief Mike Mohring now brings another possibility into play: a minority government of his party with SPD, Greens and FDP.
Mohring said on Wednesday evening in the ZDF program "Markus Lanz", he wanted to talk to the incumbent Ramelow, but not with his party. A coalition with the left he again categorically excluded: "It is obviously in Thuringia only with a minority government on."
However, there is "still a second minority option", just those with SPD, Greens and FDP, "without the edges, without left and right". This is "the strongest block" and "a minority in the middle," said Mohring. In such a constellation, the CDU would be the strongest force and could claim the office of prime minister.
Before the CDU probes this option, they wanted to wait for the official election result on 7 November, said Mohring. For the entry of the FDP in the Thuringian state parliament currently depends on only five votes.
Staff debate in the Union continues
Mohring said again that the state of the federal CDU had not helped its state association in the election campaign. He does not want to lead a personnel debate, unlike Friedrich Merz. The loss of trust among the voters is closely related to "that the perception of federal policy is not about content, but about personnel disputes."
Also CDU Secretary General Paul Ziemiak called his party in the context of violent direction and personnel debates on unity. "The CDU needs substantive debates and not permanent self-employment," said Ziemiak the "Bild" newspaper.
The provisional state chairman of the Brandenburg CDU, Michael Stübgen, commented similarly. "I do not believe in disseminating personal differences publicly," said Stübgen of the dpa news agency. "That will hurt everyone in the end, so everyone in the party would be well advised to stop." Even at the election in Brandenburg, the CDU had suffered significant losses, head of state Ingo Senftleben resigned.
Deputy CDU leader Julia Klöckner warned the Union, however, against a premature debate on the next Chancellor candidate. "Our party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has made a proposal that the party will decide on the chancellor's candidacy by the end of 2020," said the Federal Minister of Agriculture to the newspapers of the Funke Mediengruppe. "This proposal makes sense."
The German EU Commissioner Günther Oettinger (CDU) told the spark newspapers, the question of the chancellor candidate go first to Kramp-Karrenbauer. Although it suggests that she has the corresponding ambitions, but "not automatically clear". A chancellor candidate of CSU boss Markus Söder, however, Oettinger excluded. Söder must take care of Bayern and the CSU in the coming years.
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