CDU party congress: Merkel and Söder give their speeches - does the Bavarian Prime Minister position himself?

The digital CDU party congress is supposed to produce a new chairman.

During the multi-day event, Chancellor Merkel and Markus Söder will also give a speech.

• The digital

  CDU party convention

  begins on Friday,

  when a new chairman is to be elected.

• Armin Laschet

  ,

  Norbert Röttgen

  and

  Friedrich Merz

  are available.

• In addition, the speeches by Chancellor

  Angela Merkel

  and the Bavarian Prime Minister

  Markus Söder are

  eagerly awaited.

• We report from the event in the

  news ticker

  .

Update from January 15, 2021, 6.18 a.m.:

Today at 6 p.m. the digital

CDU party convention

for the election of a new

chairman

begins

.

It's not just about the

election

, there are also speeches by the outgoing party chairman

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

, a digital greeting from

Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU)

,

CSU boss Markus Söder

and the

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen

.

The new party leader should then be elected on Saturday morning.

Choices are

Armin Laschet, Norbert Röttgen

and

Friedrich Merz

.

But Markus Söder is always up for debate, even if he emphasizes that he sees his tasks in Bavaria.

The Bavarian Prime Minister also remained vague on Friday.

When asked under what circumstances, the

chancellor candidate

of the

Union

of the

CSU

might come, he told the newspapers the spark Media Group (Friday): "Even within the CDU is argued that there is so far no-born candidate.

Who is the right one also depends on the content profile with which we want to go into the Bundestag election. "

CDU party congress: Merkel and Söder give their speeches - does the Bavarian Prime Minister position himself?

First report from January 14, 2020:

Berlin - After almost a year of hanging, the digital

CDU party congress

* for the election of a new chairman

starts this Friday at 6 p.m.

Among other things, speeches by the outgoing party leader *

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

and digital speeches by Chancellor

Angela Merkel

, CSU * boss

Markus Söder

and EU Commission President

Ursula von der Leyen are

planned.

The new party leader should then be elected on Saturday morning.

Digital CDU party congress: Chancellor Angela Merkel and Markus Söder give speech

The speeches by

Angela Merkel

* and the Bavarian Prime Minister Söder are

particularly

eagerly awaited.

Söder had inspired the delegates with his speech at the last CDU party congress in Leipzig.

Quite a few then said that Söder had brought himself up for

discussion about

a possible

candidate

for

chancellor

.

The

CDU

* wants to be the first party in Germany to elect its new chairman online.

In addition to NRW Prime Minister

Armin Laschet

*, ex-Union parliamentary leader

Friedrich Merz

and foreign politician

Norbert Röttgen

* are

running

.

It is expected that none of the candidates will receive the necessary absolute majority in the first ballot on Saturday and that a second ballot will be necessary immediately afterwards.

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CDU party congress: Merkel and Söder give speech - Bavarian Prime Minister so far without ambitions for the Chancellery

In order to make the “digital preselection” legally secure, a

postal vote

follows

.

The result should be finalized and announced on January 22nd.

If the new

CDU chairman is

elected, the discussion about the right

candidate for chancellor

should quickly

gain momentum

in the Union

.

In recent months, the Bavarian Prime Minister

Söder has

regularly been in the lead in surveys on this topic

.

However, Söder himself has so far not made any public ambitions for the Chancellery clear.

(dpa / fmü)

* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen digital editorial network.