Who will be the head of the CDU?
That question is still open.
The next blow in the neck for Armin Laschet comes from a survey in the German economy.
Berlin
- Was it the right decision to postpone the candidate freestyle to the new year?
While the last SPD hope, Olaf Scholz
, is clearing away its scandals
three quarters of a year before the
federal election
, the
CDU is
still looking for the new chairman.
And about the man for
Merkel's successor
: Laschet, Merz, Röttgen or Söder, is the question.
And for some of those involved, the constantly circulating surveys bring unpleasant moments.
Armin Laschet: The fight for the top of the CDU rages on - but the economy of all people does not believe in the NRW Crown Prince
The magazine
Wirtschaftswoche has
now - by its own account representative - asked leading politicians to ask “decision-makers” from the economy about their image.
The result of the
survey
carried out
by the Institut
Civey
is unlikely to
be to the taste of
Armin Laschet in
particular
.
The
NRW Prime Minister
was recently punished badly in a "triell" of the Junge Union.
Now it seems to be showing: Germany's business elite has massive doubts about Laschet's economic competence, despite all business-friendly decisions at the beginning of the pandemic.
In the survey, only 5.5 percent of the participants stated that Laschet had a “
high level of economic competence”
.
That meant the last place in a selection of seven politicians.
Still behind the foreign-policy profiled competitor
Norbert Röttgen *
- and
Green leader Annalena Baerbock
, who in the past got into a skid on questions of automobility.
Baerbock and the Greens are likely to continue to promote their ability to govern at their party congress on the weekend.
Söder and Scholz beat Laschet in the business competence ranking - Merz at the top
Things look a lot
better for another trio:
CSU boss Markus Söder *
(25.5 percent), his
FDP counterpart Christian Lindner
(24.4) and the
Cum-Ex
and
Wirecard-
battered
finance minister Scholz
(22 , 2) a quarter of those questioned believed that they had a good knowledge of the needs and worries of the companies - although the small gap between the liberal Lindner and the social democrat Scholz seems quite remarkable.
However,
Friedrich Merz is the
undisputed leader
.
According to Civey, the
former
Blackrock supervisory board chairman
is rated by 46.2 percent of “decision-makers” as economically competent.
20.1 percent of the participants wanted to attribute “none of the above” to a high level of competence in questions of economics.
Wirtschaftswoche
did not provide any data
on the methodology of the current survey
in its article.
In a 2019 edition of the “Decision-Making Panel”, Civey said it had interviewed 1,500 entrepreneurs in managerial positions in companies with at least ten employees.
CDU chairmanship: Laschet warns through the flower of Merz - "polarizing party leader would be wrong"
Laschet tried (regardless of these numbers) on Friday to advise against
Merz 'to the CDU boss
through the flower before a
freestyle
- without mentioning the name of the rival.
"A polarizing party leader or chancellor would be wrong in this situation," warned the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Merz had made negative headlines only on Sunday with a harsh statement at the ARD talk "Anne Will", as
Merkur.de
* reported.
Laschet himself
apparently
wants to
convince
the delegates at the
CDU party congress
in January with his own government experience.
"Especially in these times, when big decisions about the corona pandemic have to be made almost every day, government experience is extremely important," he said in an interview with the
Stuttgarter Zeitung
.
“The future Chancellor is required not only to give theoretical speeches, but also to do practical government work.” Merz has never held a high public office at the state or federal level.
“In a world that is out of joint, stability is a valuable asset,” the Prime Minister emphasized.
In addition, the
successor to Chancellor Angela Merkel must
“develop Germany's role in Europe and the world in continuity and combine it internally with new ideas and a new dynamic for the future”.
On the same day, Laschet also made a proposal for the further Corona measures public - it was strictly, but a little more relaxed than Angela Merkel's plans.
(
fn / AFP
) *
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