Mess about CDU chairmanship: Survey disaster for Merz and Co. - Söder adds: "Clearly not justifiable"

Laschet, Merz and Röttgen argue about the CDU chairmanship.

But the audience seems to be indifferent.

A new survey gives impetus to a mind game.

• On Saturday (October 17th) the struggle for the leadership of the CDU officially began - with a "triell" between Laschet, Merz and Röttgen.

• But a recently conducted survey leaves all three candidates in the rain.

  Instead, two other politicians are in focus.

• There is also a dispute over the CDU party congress in December.

  How Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer's successor will be chosen seems open again.

Update from October 19, 2020:

The

is still in the middle of the snail race for the

: A survey has again

a small disaster for the

(see first report).

Now the respondents' favorite chancellor,

criticized the sister party - and indirectly urged it to reschedule the nomination process.

Although Söder emphasized on Monday after a message from the CSU board in Nuremberg: “The CDU alone decides whether or not to hold a party congress.” With a view to the

, he added: “We have made a decision for ourselves, entirely clearly that we do not consider a meeting of 1000 people to be justifiable at the moment. "

Söder emphasized: "We would not have done it - or we did not do it." He gave two reasons for this: the

and the

.

In order to maintain the motivation and the participation of the population, it is important "that there are no special rights and privileges for parties or for politicians".

Everyone should

.

"And I cannot imagine that we will approve another event with 1000 people." But there may be other possible forms, a postal vote or something similar.

Another way out would be to

.

Possibly with consequences for the selection of the Union parties for the candidacy for chancellor.

Söder

accused him of having this in mind with his corona policy

.

"His politics always have the candidate for chancellor in view, which is irresponsible in this situation." Söder drives "a new pig through the village every day".

CDU chairmanship: next survey disaster for Merz and Co. - result strengthens piquant mind game about Söder

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Three candidates - and no favorite: Norbert Röttgen, Friedrich Merz and Armin Laschet (from left) in Berlin on Saturday.

© Michael Kappeler / AFP

First report: Berlin

- On Saturday, the three

candidates

faced

a direct "Triell" for the first time.

It is still open who found the Christian Democratic base most convincing - but a

published

over the

weekend

provides new insights into the starting position.

Ironically, it gives a special model that was debated in summer.

And is to be assessed as the next small punishment for the three candidates ...

Merz, Laschet, Röttgen - the survey provides completely different favorites for the CDU chairmanship

According to

the survey,

would have

good cards with the citizens as CDU chairman, but less good cards as the Union's candidate for chancellor.

In the survey conducted by the Kantar Institute for the

, 22 percent said they were most likely to trust Spahn to become a good CDU boss.

However, the 40-year-old does not even apply for the party chairmanship, but joins the

- if

wins, Spahn should become deputy party leader.

For the "real" opponents, it looks a lot darker, although Spahn has recently come under fire.

Chancellor question: Merz and Co. still well behind Söder - is the “Crown Prince” model coming?

In the survey,

19 percent

most likely to be a good CDU chairman, 17 percent named

and 8 percent named

* be elected on December 4th at the CDU federal party conference in Stuttgart, which has been shortened to one day due to the Corona crisis.

It looks similarly bad for Laschet, Merz and Röttgen on the question of which Union politician is trusted to become a good Federal Chancellor.

In the Kantar survey,

ahead with 34 percent, although the Bavarian Prime Minister repeatedly emphasizes that his place is in Bavaria.

Merz only got 12 percent, Spahn 8, Laschet 7 and Röttgen 5 percent.

The SPD acknowledged the situation with ridicule.

The competition between Messrs. Laschet, Merz and Röttgen shows again and again that most of the Union would like Spahn as party leader and Söder as candidate for chancellor.

And then Merkel is also there + Kramp-Karrenbauer acting chairwoman 😗

- Ralf Stegner (@Ralf_Stegner) October 18, 2020

In view of such polls,

the rounds

in the summer

: Spahn could become party leader and Söder could leave the chancellorship, it was speculated at the time.

An idea that would be in line with current survey results.

However, both Spahn and Söder would have to leave their previous plans for this constellation.

Some companions do not rule this out for Söder.

CDU is looking for the party leader: Presidium rebels against previous plans - "politically not to mediate"

Another problem for the CDU could be the

at which the new boss is to be chosen.

Within the party, given the high number of corona infections, there are doubts about the presence format for the federal party conference in December.

"Politically, it cannot be conveyed that we are meeting for a party congress while the rest of the country has to stay at home," the

quoted

a

.

According to information from the

there are

votes

in the

that consider a

to be possible, while the party

could meet with the candidates at one location.

The application speeches would then have

to be seen live at the other locations

via

.

At the same time, there are concerns as to whether such a procedure can be legally secure.

CDU party congress to choose new boss - digitally or in the stadium?

According to information from the

from the Presidium and Executive Board, a realistic option is currently to

the

and to determine the new party chairman and board by postal vote.

recently

a meeting in a

in an interview with the

portal

.

The plans for the

were last stuck to.

By the end of the month, the party leadership wants to decide whether, when, where and how the election of a new chairman can be organized.

The CDU party congress consists of

.

(

) *

.