Poll vortex for CDU - new man could stir up Merkel's successor: "There is no getting around him"

The Corona crisis was the hour of the heads of government for a long time.

But now the top dogs are losing popularity.

The race for chancellorship could turn that upside down.

• Not only Markus Söder seemed to have benefited politically from the Corona crisis for a long time.

  But surveys suggest that the wind could turn.

• Two surveys show a negative approval for Söder, Friedrich Merz and Armin Laschet.

• Norbert Röttgen, however, wins in popular favor.

  Another CDU man does not only get the focus of attention because of a surprising speech.

Berlin

- Federal politics has recently experienced turbulent days - especially with the

on Wednesday, of course.

Not only critics believe that the group of Chancellor and Prime Minister is also an opportunity to raise awareness for higher tasks.

For the CDU chair, for example.

Or the Chancellery.

do not provide

any good news

for the

and

.

In general, the Union top dogs seem to be weakening in favor of the population.

The focus is therefore now on the

.

And a fourth, possibly laughing.

The cards could be reshuffled shortly before the election year.

Corona is whirling around the race for Merkel's successor: Röttgen suddenly picks up - Merz loses

According to the latest

- “Deutschlandtrend” - none of the three CDU presidential candidates have a majority behind them - and the two most prominent ones are losing popularity.

 gave a whopping nine points to 15 percent.

For

it is a minus of seven percentage points, but he is further ahead at 27 percent.

on the other hand, outperformed Laschet in the infratest-dimap survey - he is now in second place with 16 percent.

A

by

also on Friday provides further clues

.

According to this, Söder is

still the most popular politician in the country

after

, but recently lost six of 152 ranking points.

In this list, Röttgen * is even ahead of Laschet and Merz (101 each) in 7th place with 102 points - and, shortly after the Green Party Congress, in close contact with

and

, who were placed directly in front of him

.

For the table, the Insa Institute surveyed 2,063 people aged 18 and over, but before the summit.

By the way, Jens Spahn, Olaf Scholz and Sahra Wagenknecht finished third to fifth.

Laschet and Merz in distress: will Brinkhaus be the laughing third party?

Merkel scolding attracts attention

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Does Friedrich Merz threaten another defeat in the race for the CDU chairmanship?

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Another does not even appear in these lists:

.

The Union parliamentary group leader recently made a name for himself - precisely because he openly criticized the Chancellor's Corona rounds in the Bundestag.

Maybe he could become the winner of the current situation.

"There is currently no way

around

him", the portal

quotes

a source from "Brinkhaus' closest environment".

Brinkhaus is currently critical of the Corona resolutions and the planned easing on

.

The

website also wants to have learned

from the

that the most important decisions in the Corona crisis are not made by Prime Ministers like Laschet and Söder.

A "circle" made up of Merkel, her

,

, and the parliamentary group leaders Brinkhaus and

(SPD) is the circle through which major advances have to be made.

The CDU had recently postponed its party congress - and did not rule out other candidates for the top post.

In view of this, Merz publicly expressed conspiracy theories.

The upswing for Brinkhaus is not a completely new phenomenon.

The

had openly brought Brinkhaus into play as the new CDU party chairman at the beginning of November.

In the CDU there are many great personalities who are suitable for top positions, said Hirte at the time to the

.

“The parliamentary group chairman Ralph Brinkhaus is definitely one of them.” The 52-year-old - like Laschet, Merz and Röttgen North Rhine-Westphalia - came to his current office rather surprisingly in 2018.

Chancellor Race 2021: Scholz is already thinking out loud about the cabinet

But of course Olaf Scholz still has ambitions for the Chancellery - although the polls of his party do not necessarily strengthen them and accusations against his person keep coming up.

On Friday, the

thought out

loud about a

.

"I am making the promise here today: At least half of a cabinet led by me as Federal Chancellor is made up of women," he wrote on Twitter.

I am making the promise here today: At least half of a cabinet that I run as Chancellor is made up of women!

#Gequality @Womens Council #dffinanzen

- Olaf Scholz (@OlafScholz) November 27, 2020

It seems more likely, however, that a new Union Chancellor will make his way into office in the federal elections in September 2021 - whether it is one of the trio

or Bayer

.

Or maybe Ralph Brinkhaus after all.

On the Sunday question, according to the “Deutschlandtrend”, Union is further ahead - with 35 points and a large margin ahead of the Greens.

(

) *

.

List of rubric lists: © Kay Nietfeld / dpa