Don't worry about Söder and Spahn - Merz scoffs at "Whispers and whispers in Berlin"

Friedrich Merz wants to become CDU boss in January.

“Whispers and whispers” does not worry him - in contrast to a possible hacker attack on the party congress.

• According to surveys,

  Friedrich Merz

  is still the favorite for the CDU chairmanship.

• In an

  interview

  with

  Münchner Merkur

  *, the conservative CDU man is self-confident: “Whispers and whispers in Berlin” don't worry him.

• At the same time, Merz warns of a

  hacker attack on the CDU party conference

  - and calls for

  tighter action at schools

  in the

  corona crisis.

Munich - The

is in full swing - but

is emphatically calm, also speculating that

could still enter the race as a candidate.

When asked about a Spahn candidacy, Merz told

*: “Why should I fear them.

I hear the constant whispers and whispers in Berlin, but I assume that the tandem solution will remain, whatever that means later in practice. "

CDU: Friedrich Merz warns of hacker attack at party congress - and does not worry about Söder's candidacy

Merz said he was expecting a

- the delegates at home on the computer, the party leadership in a hall, similar to what happened recently with the Greens.

“The open question that we have to answer is: How can the vote be technically and legally secure?” He

: “The manipulation of our elections would be the most likely thing for the entire hacker scene at home and abroad biggest trophy of the next year.

The CDU must technically secure the election much more strongly than, for example, a club meeting on Zoom with an election function. "

Merz said about his relationship with

that they talked “openly and trustingly a lot about strategic issues and about the Union's personnel structure”.

With a

he does not expect obvious.

"When the Prime Minister of the Free State says his place is in Bavaria, I have the greatest respect."

The Union will vote with a "visible team that covers the entire spectrum from economic and environmental policy, domestic policy, social and family policy to foreign and security policy with credible and authentic people." really good young MPs with political talent and solid professional background ”in the Bundestag.

He

will make

a

"as soon as the party conference has been invited".

Corona in Germany: Merz makes demands on the countries - tightening the reins in school policy

In terms of content, Merz called for

without questioning the course as a whole.

He called on the federal states to

tighten

the reins in

*.

In the

interview, he criticized the slow digitization of schools.

"Many hundreds of school authorities work decentrally and are obviously overwhelmed with this task," said Merz.

Overall, Germany should have “prepared better for the second wave in the summer”.

Maintaining

is extremely important, Merz made clear.

"There is no money in the world to make up for the educational losses and social problems that arise from school closings." Using the example of

, he described that the completely

worked, but the decentralized schools often still did not even have wifi.

One can learn from this that “the federal states should digitize schools more centrally”.

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