The digital CDU party congress is supposed to produce a new chairman.
During the two-day event, Angela Merkel and Markus Söder also address a few greetings to the party.
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 Bavarian Prime Minister
Markus Söder are
eagerly awaited.
We report from the event in the
news ticker
.
Update from January 15, 1:15 p.m.:
On Friday evening,
Markus Söder
speaks
at the
digital CDU party conference.
Before that, he once again made it clear that nothing would be determined in the question of the candidate for chancellor without his party - and quietly indicated preferences for the chairmanship of the sister party.
The question of the chancellor is decided jointly, “because Bavaria has many votes in the federal elections.
The CSU chairman always plays an important role in the overall success of the CDU, ”said Söder in an interview with the
Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
.
He added quite tellingly: "Even in the CDU there is a discussion that there has been no born candidate."
The three candidates,
Friedrich Merz, Armin Laschet and Norbert Röttgen
, set different accents on how they
wanted to deal
with
Angela Merkel's
legacy.
"Anyone who thinks they can win the federal election by breaking with Angela Merkel is fundamentally wrong," explained Söder in this context.
Possibly a swipe: of the three applicants,
Friedrich Merz is
the candidate who is striving for the party's most conservative course and thus the strongest break with Merkel's central policy.
The fact that
Söder
thinks little of it, he emphasized once again with praise for the
Chancellor
: “She is one of the very great Chancellors in Federal Republican history and stands in a row with Konrad Adenauer and Helmut Kohl.
In addition, there is an extremely high level of approval for her person and her politics in Germany, "said the CSU leader:" Your legacy must be preserved and at the same time enriched with new ideas for the next stage of German politics. "
CDU party congress: In addition to the applicants Röttgen, Laschet and Merz, Merkel and Söder will also speak
Update from January 15, 8:48 a.m.:
The presidency candidate
Norbert Röttgen
has confirmed his claim
to want to become a
candidate for chancellor
* if he is elected.
During a conversation in RTL's “Guten Morgen Deutschland” on Friday morning, he said that it was the
CDU's
self-
image
that the chairman should also take over the office of candidate for chancellor.
"The most important goal is that the Union candidate becomes the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany".
With the potential competitor of the
CSU, Markus Söder
, Röttgen does not want to measure himself: “We are the first servants of the parties, that's what it's all about.
And not about us and our egos. "
The
CDU
needs new impetus, and the election campaign for the upcoming state elections is right there.
"There's a lot of work to do," said
Röttgen
.
His plan after a victory: “I will go to my new job with a lot of energy and drive.” 2021 is a so-called super election year in Germany with six state elections and the federal election.
CDU party congress: Merkel and Söder's speech eagerly awaited
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.
Video: Who will be CDU boss?
The three candidates at a glance
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.
