In Berlin
At the CDU, he is jealous, feared and respected.
With his 1.94 meters, the President of Bavaria, Markus Söder, towers over his friends by his height.
He dominates the polls, monopolizes the conversations of the gazettes and his shadow hangs like a ghost over the party congress.
On Saturday, in front of his virtual screen, the boss of the CSU, the small regionalist brother party of the CDU, will launch appeals for the unity of the Christian Democratic family.
He will celebrate before the end of the choice that the delegates will make.
But behind the scenes, all his comrades wonder if he does not dream, in fine, of stealing from the future president of the CDU the post of chancellor left by Angela Merkel.
Speculation feeds itself: the person concerned has never clearly displayed his ambitions.
In Germany, political usage means that the boss of the CDU is also the party's candidate for Chancellery.
And that this candidacy is endorsed by the small CSU, chaired in this case by Markus Söder.
But after Angela
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