Does Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer surrender in the face of the will to power of Armin Laschet, Friedrich Merz and Co.? In the "summer interview" she fears a "ruinous" struggle.
- The Chancellor Party has been grappling with the CDU chairmanship for months.
- In the ZDF "summer interview", Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, still party leader, expressed her alarm.
- She fears a "ruinous" struggle and no longer believes in an amicable solution - a clear warning to the address of Armin Laschet and Friedrich Merz.
Berlin - The fight for the CDU chairmanship has been raging for many months - and thus also for the best chances of the Union's candidacy for chancellor . Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer still holds the influential position. But of all people she made a twofold bitter assessment of the situation in the dispute in the ZDF "summer interview" on Sunday (August 30).
CDU chairmanship: Will the power struggle for Laschet and Merz be "ruinous"? AKK issues a bitter warning
Because the CDU leader, on the one hand, according to her own statements, no longer expects an amicable solution between the candidates Armin Laschet * , Friedrich Merz and Norbert Röttgen * . At the same time, she considers a possibly "ruinous" race for office to be possible.
Kramp-Karrenbauer called on the candidates for their successors to deal responsibly with their candidacy . "Whether a selection of good candidates turns into a ruinous competition is the responsibility of each individual," she said on Sunday in the interview for the ZDF program "Berlin direkt" . "Everyone has to think about setting an example as to whether they are suitable to take on higher management responsibility."
AKK warns Laschet, Merz and Röttgen: Are they ignoring the CDU's "wish"?
However , Kramp-Karrenbauer does not believe that there is still an amicable solution . Since all the candidates had declared that they wanted to take part in the party congress, it was a "hypothetical and theoretical discussion, and one does not need to continue that".
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themselves from right-wing extremists: "Each individual has to consider whether it justifies their criticism that one tries to storm the Reichstag together with Nazis," she says in the @ ZDF summer interview https: // t.co/iB6i6tvEPw
An amicable solution is still the desire of the party. "But it is up to the candidates themselves whether they agree to it, and so far I have at least no signals that that would be the case." Kramp-Karrenbauer, as the party leader, apparently does not see himself in a position to contain the candidates' power struggle . The SPD has already found its candidate for chancellor in Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
At the beginning of December, the new CDU chairman is to be elected at a party conference in Stuttgart . Kramp-Karrenbauer was determined to stick to this schedule. “If it is somehow possible, we will and we want to do that. That is also very important to me personally, ”said the CDU leader.
Kramp-Karrenbauer in the ZDF summer interview: Party conference should take place - "while maintaining the role model function"
The party will organize the party congress while maintaining its role model function and according to what the authorities approve. A wide variety of formats should be proposed for this, she said. Kramp-Karrenbauer mentioned the possibility of shortening the delegates' meeting so that the topics of follow-up and hygiene rules can be observed. The CDU leader pointed out that in two weeks the party executive would decide how the party congress should be organized.
Despite Kramp-Karrenbauer's warning, the Union is doing quite well in a recent survey: with 36 percent, the party is still by far the strongest force. In the meantime, Chancellor Angela Merkel once again emphasized in her summer press conference that she did not want to interfere in the Chancellor's wrestling. ( dpa / AFP / fn )
