A CSU member has now given clear advice on the future of Markus Söder and a possible chancellor candidacy to succeed Angela Merkel.
- Chancellor question in the Union: According to a survey, the Germans have a new candidate.
- Markus Söder has won many sympathy points with his Corona crisis management.
- Does the CSU boss succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel ?
- A CSU member has now given clear advice on the future of the Bavarian Prime Minister.
Update from May 22, 2020, 9:54 p.m .: Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz considers the Bavarian Prime Minister and CSU chief Markus Söder also suitable for higher tasks. "I trust Markus Söder to do everything," said Kurz on Friday evening in talk format "Bild live" . At the same time, he emphasized: “I don't get involved in the question of who should become CDU leader, who should be the next German chancellor. You won't get any information from me. ”He works well with both Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and Söder . Kurz was also a guest speaker at the CSU's Internet party conference on Friday evening.
Chancellor question: Will Markus Söder succeed Merkel? Party colleague is clear: "My recommendation ..."
Update, May 19, 18:50: Kick Markus Söder , the successor of Chancellor Angela Merkel on? In the Corona crisis, the CSU boss has been able to collect many sympathy points ( see below ). However, former CSU chairman Edmund Stoiber has now advised the Bavarian prime minister against being a candidate for chancellor. "My recommendation remains: to keep this state of Bavaria stable now, to keep it in first place, and then to stand in front of Bavaria in the next state parliament election," said Stoiber.
Recently, there has been constant speculation about a potential candidate for Chancellor Söders , the popularity of which has increased significantly since the beginning of the Corona crisis. Söder, on the other hand, had already stressed several times that his place was in Bavaria.
Stoiber also had praise words for Söder and its occurrence in the crisis. The prime ministers currently played an important role. And that “the most precise and most level-headed Markus Söder is” is an acknowledgment for his way of doing politics .
Chancellor question in the Union: Germans have clear preferred candidates for Merkel's successor
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Berlin - His corona crisis management brings Markus Söder * a high in the survey. Of the possible chancellor candidates in the Union, the CSU leader has by far the greatest backing among the population. According to a survey by the opinion research institute YouGov on behalf of the German Press Agency , 27 percent of those questioned would like the Bavarian Prime Minister to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) in the next federal election .
Far behind, the former Bundestag parliamentary group leader Friedrich Merz with twelve and the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Armin Laschet with eight percent . Health Minister Jens Spahn has seven percent and foreign politician Norbert Röttgen only three percent . 43 percent of the respondents did not provide any information.
Corona crisis management brings Söder survey high - a few weeks ago it looked different
Before the start of the Corona crisis in Germany at the end of February, things had looked very different. At that time, Merz was still number one with 18 percent approval, ahead of Söder with twelve and Röttgen with eleven percent . Laschet followed with nine and Spahn with seven percent .
Unlike Söder, the Minister of Health was obviously unable to benefit from his crisis management in the Corona crisis. The biggest loser is Röttgen, who has hardly appeared since the outbreak of the crisis.
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Chancellor question in the Union: "My place is and remains in Bavaria"
Söder has stated on several occasions that he is not aiming to become chancellor . “The question of how things will go next year doesn't matter at all. We also have a strong chancellor who supports Bavaria very much. My place is and will remain in Bavaria, ”he said in an interview published by the German Press Agency on Thursday . "I am currently not evaluating posture and style questions or reading surveys. The only values that interest me are the new infection numbers every day. ”
The backing for Söder, who recently broke a record by Edmund Stoiber, is particularly high among the voters of the CDU and CSU with 38 percent . For Merz there are 15 percent in this group , for Laschet 14 percent , for Spahn six percent and for Röttgen three percent .
Union chancellor question: Markus Söder (left) is to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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The CDU usually has first access to the Union's candidature for chancellor. With Franz Josef Strauß (1980) and Edmund Stoiber (2002) there were also two CSU candidates for the Chancellor, both of whom lost the election.
Chancellor question in the Union: does Merkel continue?
In the wake of the Corona crisis *, however, the desire grows that Merkel will remain Chancellor for another term. In the YouGov survey, 30 percent of those questioned said that they would run for the government again after 16 years . 53 percent are against, 17 percent did not provide any information.
At the end of February, only 21 percent wanted Merkel to continue, 64 percent refused. When she retired from the CDU chairmanship in October 2018, the 65-year-old announced that she would not be available for another term in the Chancellery.
* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
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