Armin Laschet calls for a CDU candidate for chancellor for the Union. CSU boss Markus Söder has already waved away - but will he stick to it?
- Armin Laschet has underlined the CDU's claim to be the candidate for the Union chancellor.
- According to surveys, many Markus Söder (CSU ) would like to be Chancellor in the Corona crisis * .
- It is not yet clear who will take over from the Union as Merkel's successor .
Berlin - Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder "already made a clear statement on the Chancellor candidate question, " said Armin Laschet * (CDU) , Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia - and he also assumes that the CSU boss still does not support this Office advertises. Laschet told the world on Sunday : "I take that seriously."
Merkel's successor: Laschet on Spahn's plans to become chancellor and the CDU chairmanship
Laschet clearly spoke out in favor of the future Federal Chancellor also being the CDU party leader . "Many in the Union share the view that the successes of Konrad Adenauer, Helmut Kohl and Angela Merkel can also be attributed to the connection between the chancellorship and the party presidency," said the Prime Minister. He also "always saw and said this".
Also the intentions of Health Minister Jens Spahn * (CDU) not to run for party leadership have not changed, said Laschet. "We both decided to start as a team," he emphasized. "It is precisely in this crisis that the strength of teamwork is evident." The Union would again be accepted as a strong People's Party.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) no longer runs after four terms. At a party conference at the end of the year, the CDU must first determine the successor to party leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer . In addition to Laschet, economic politician Friedrich Merz * and foreign politician Norbert Röttgen * are applying for the party chairmanship . Subsequently, the CSU should discuss the successor to Merkel .
Söder had declared at the end of May that he was expecting a decision by the Union to run for chancellor in January and had repeatedly stressed that his place was in Bavaria. However, its poll ratings have risen sharply in the corona virus crisis - in some cases it is far ahead of other potential chancellor candidates.
In addition, Söder recently avoided a clear no to the chancellor candidacy: "The crisis shows who the Germans trust in difficult times." The CSU has only presented the Union chancellor candidate twice. Franz Josef Strauß (1980) and Edmund Stoiber (2002) did not make it to the chancellery.
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