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Very present in the crisis: Health Minister Jens Spahn, here with Family Minister Franziska Giffey (SPD)
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According to a survey, Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn is the most popular candidate for the CDU chairmanship.
In a survey by the Kantar Institute for the Funke media group, 22 percent voted for Spahn, 19 percent for the economic politician Friedrich Merz, 17 percent for North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Armin Laschet and 8 percent for the foreign policy specialist Norbert Röttgen.
Eighteen percent each said that none of the four politicians could take office or that they did not want to commit themselves.
Spahn has so far supported Laschet's application, but voices in the CDU are in favor of the health minister's candidacy.
In a Civey poll for SPIEGEL, a majority spoke out in favor of Laschet's waiver in favor of Spahn, and Union voters in particular were in favor.
In addition, Union supporters favored a duo from Spahn as CDU boss and Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) as chancellor candidate.
This tendency is also repeated in the new survey: 34 percent of those questioned are for Söder as candidate for chancellor.
This puts the CSU boss clearly ahead of Merz, who was only able to convince twelve percent of himself in second place.
Spahn (eight percent), Laschet (seven percent) and Röttgen (five percent) do even worse.
16 percent doubt that one of the five named Union politicians could become a successful successor to Angela Merkel, 17 percent made no decision.
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