Jens Spahn has been criticized for the corona vaccinations, but his polls are almost outstanding.
He now seems to want to use that to achieve more personally.
According to media reports,
Health Minister
Jens Spahn
is said to have called important CDU politicians to sound out his chances as a candidate for chancellor for the Union.
However, a spokesman rejected the reports.
It
is still completely open
who will become
Chancellor of
the Union.
Berlin -
Armin Laschet
and
Jens Spahn
(both CDU) wanted to prove their ability to work in a team when they stood together in the race for the
CDU chairmanship
.
NRW Prime Minister Laschet should become the party chairman, Health Minister Spahn his supporter.
But now Spahn is to forge his own plans.
Spiegel
and
Bild
unanimously report that
Spahn
made many phone calls to influential CDU politicians at the end of 2020 in order to sound out his chances of running for
chancellor in
the federal election in September 2021.
For weeks there have been reports that internally, CDU supporters would
want to persuade Spahn, who is always in the limelight
in the
corona pandemic
, to step out of the tandem with Laschet.
In surveys, Spahn was always doing very well - even better than
Chancellor Angela Merkel
.
Spahn as a candidate for chancellor?
Minister is said to have asked CDU politicians for their opinion
Against this backdrop, Spahn turned loud
levels
in
phone calls
to state parliament, party colleagues and state officials, which, therefore, a "half dozen CDU members" confirmed.
Apparently he wanted to know how they would feel about him as a possible
candidate for chancellor
.
"Jens Spahn has made it clear to me that he is open to a chancellor candidacy if his poll numbers in March are much better than that of Laschet," citing
image
one
CDU state parliamentary group leader.
In addition to
Jens Spahn
also, according to information from the
mirror,
tried "indirectly" to have Laschet give up - in his own favor.
Also CDU Vice and Hessian Prime Minister Volker Bouffier should
Armin Laschet
have approached about a role reversal.
But he refused.
Laschet probably wants to continue to take control of it himself.
His
survey values have
recently made a significant leap up: With a plus of ten percentage points, Lashte's values rose to 25 percent compared to November, according to the result of an Infratest Dimap survey on behalf of ARD among CDU supporters.
He was on par with competitor
Norbert Röttgen
, but further behind
Friedrich Merz
(29 percent).
Spahn as a candidate for chancellor?
Armin Laschet would prefer to do it himself
Just a few days ago, Laschet let it be known in an
interview with
Stern
that he dared to succeed Merkel.
"A break with
Angela Merkel
would be exactly the wrong signal," the magazine quotes him.
CDU: Jens Spahn explored opportunities for candidate for chancellor https://t.co/uZvCXzyPPt pic.twitter.com/SwiIcN3WgK
- SPIEGEL Top (@SPIEGEL_Top) January 7, 2021
According to
Spiegel
, a
spokesman
for Spahn's ministry announced again: “The minister is in constant contact with party members.
Of
course, it is also about the mood before the
party congress
, the support for the team with Armin Laschet and the best line-up for the CDU and CSU for the election year. ”
Bild also
received an answer to
exploratory intentions
:“ No, that's not true. ”
CDU chairmanship and candidate for chancellor: Still completely open who it will be
In any case, the Union does not seem to want to decide so quickly this year who should become its
candidate for chancellor
.
Above all, the CSU and
Markus Söder
are pushing to take more time, not least because of the Corona crisis.
The
CDU leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
,
who has been leaving for almost a year, also
considers the question of the person to be completely open.
"Everything is possible," she told the
Saarbrücker Zeitung
.
"It remains wise to take a closer look at the situation in spring."
The
CDU's digital party congress
will take place on January 15 and 16
on which the new chairman is to be determined.
In addition to Armin Laschet, foreign expert
Norbert Röttgen
and ex-Union parliamentary group leader
Friedrich Merz
also appear in the first row
.
(cibo)
