CDU party convention: election of the chairman due to Corona on the brink - survey shows clear favorites

The CDU party congress on December 4th is not quite certain yet.

A decision should be made on Monday.

That would also help the hanging game for the CDU chairmanship.

• A presence event with 1001 delegates as a

  CDU party congress

  is unthinkable for some members.

• But a meeting is important because the party has been looking for a successor to Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer since February.

• In a recent poll,

  Friedrich Merz

  gets

  a majority through certain groups of voters.

Stuttgart - It feels like the

* is currently in the air: The current chairwoman

announced her

in February

, since then three candidates have officially applied for her

.

There has been no open exchange of blows between the applicants

,

* (together in the team with

) and

*, because the competition should be fair, according to the announcement of their current party leader.

But whether a

, which should bring the final decision after a long time, really on

is currently very uncertain.

1001 delegates are to come together in Baden-Württemberg on this day.

In view of the

and against the background of event bans, it is an irritating project.

That is what some top CDU leaders think.

So Saarland premier said

the

on Saturday about

: "This would be a disastrous signal - also in view of the limitations that we our citizens corona caused in everyday life expect." Even Economy Minister

takes the pandemic events coverage the coronavirus in Germany at a glance: At the moment the numbers are "much too high", he tells the newspapers of the

.

"Nowhere in the republic do larger events take place."

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The three official candidates for the CDU party chairmanship - Norbert Röttgen, Friedrich Merz and Armin Laschet (from left).

© Michael Kappeler / AFP

CDU party conference as an isolated solution in discussion - presence event with 1001 delegates controversial

So how will the party then elect a new party leader?

According to the

, there is now increasing discussion

about a kind of

- a decentralized party congress with a few people in several places.

Each location would then be connected via video.

According to

information, the

model could be

a corresponding planning for the Lower Saxony CDU state party conference on November 7th.

A

the CDU party congress does not yet

seem entirely out of the question

.

However, in view of the situation, it can first be assumed that the

did not completely disappear

in spring

.

On Monday, the CDU top will

decide on alternatives for the party congress

in meetings of the

and board.

CDU party chairmanship decides between Friedrich Merz, Armin Laschet and Norbert Röttgen

So that would clarify the formal part.

It remains to be seen who the delegates choose to be their new chairman, in whatever form.

A new survey by the opinion research institute Forsa on behalf of RTL and ntv asked 1007 CDU members about their wishes.

The clear favorite among them is

.

According to this, 45 percent of the members would choose the ex-group chairman with a long business career.

24 percent are for NRW Prime Minister Laschet, 13 percent for the foreign expert Röttgen.

Who can score points with which internal party groups is very different: According to the survey, Merz is

popular

in

, 54 percent of the

surveyed

choose him.

He can also convince people who classify themselves as politically right-wing (59 percent).

Laschet, on the other hand, knows groups from his state of

(39 percent) as well as CDU party members of the left wing behind him.

There was a discussion at the Junge Union a few days ago.

Who of the three was able to convince the most there is still open.

Many thanks to the @Junge_Union for this great #JUPITCH.

The content was well thought out and technically implemented perfectly.

I am convinced: This will also set standards for the @CDU!

(FM)

- Friedrich Merz (@_FriedrichMerz) October 17, 2020

CDU party chairmanship: who will achieve a good result in the Bundestag election?

Anyone who becomes party chairman is often treated as a

.

However, as in many polls before, most see a candidate from another party as the best option.

has

chances for a good result in the

2021

.

More than half of the members believe in the CSU man from Bavaria.

Laschet and Merz each receive only a fifth of the votes when it comes to a good union result in the election.

Finally, there is Health Minister

, who is currently not only fighting politically with the corona virus. 71 percent expect that in the future he will "assume an outstanding role in the CDU". So is Spahn possibly following the calls in his party to step out of the previous team with Laschet? The

, whenever and wherever, will tell. Until then, candidates can still officially apply for the chairmanship of the CDU.