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CDU showdown on Saturday: Merz, Laschet or Röttgen? The last survey shows a clear trend

2021-01-16T10:13:55.244Z


Who will be the new CDU party leader? The race remains exciting. Surveys try to spot a trend. When it comes to qualifying as chancellor, things look different again.


Who will be the new CDU party leader?

The race remains exciting.

Surveys try to spot a trend.

When it comes to qualifying as chancellor, things look different again.

Update from January 15th, 12:41 pm:

The current ZDF “Political

Barometer

” does not look really rosy for the three

CDU presidency candidates

- at least when it

comes to

their suitability for chancellor.

The representative survey of eligible voters in Germany by the Wahlen research group shows that only 29 percent each consider

Friedrich Merz

or

Norbert Röttgen

to be suitable for this position, while

Armin Laschet

only thinks 28 percent.

Jens Spahn

is still ahead of them with 32 percent among the asked Union politicians, but CSU boss

Markus Söder

wins significantly with 54 percent.

The respondents believe that

Friedrich Merz

and

Armin Laschet will

most likely lead the CDU successfully into the future.

However, both received only 28 percent approval each.

Norbert Röttgen

comes to 24 percent.

The most explosive finding before the

CDU online party congress

: It

looks a little different

among the

Union supporters

surveyed

: Merz received 37 percent of the votes, Röttgen got 26 percent, Laschet 25 percent.

Surveys before the CDU party congress: Friedrich Merz scores with top management from the economic sector

Update from January 14th, 2.30 p.m.:

Markus Söder

as

Union Chancellor candidate

.

This is what a majority of respondents in a current

Forsa survey

on behalf of the broadcasters RTL and ntv want:

  • 39 percent of those surveyed are in favor of

    CSU boss

    and

    Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder

    and consider him more suitable for the

    Chancellery

    than

    Laschet, Röttgen and Merz

    .

    And 54 percent of the CDU supporters surveyed are also for Söder - that is only two percentage points less than for CSU supporters.

  • 24 percent are undecided.

  • Merz unites twelve percent in the survey, Laschet nine percent, Röttgen eight percent.

  • In the group of over 60s, approval for

    Söder as candidate

    for

    chancellor is

    even greater.

CDU party conference 2021: who will be the new party chairman?

Merz popular with AfD supporters

According to the survey,

Friedrich Merz

is particularly popular with supporters of the alternative for Germany.

Every second AfD supporter spoke out in favor of Merz during the survey.

Among the CDU supporters, it was only 12 percent.

Another survey, shortly before the CDU party congress, tries to shed light on the dark.

Neither Merz, Laschet nor Röttgen have candidates for the 

CDU chairmanship

broad support on the question of the 

Union's candidacy for chancellor

.

This is shown by a current survey by

FAZ

and

Capital

among 500 decision-makers from politics, business and administration.

But a desired coalition becomes clear in the survey: black-green.

There is no reliable survey among the 1001 delegates who will vote at the CDU party congress.

The survey of who the

top leaders in politics and business would like to

be the next party chairman revealed the following picture:

  • Friedrich Merz:

    41 percent (economy) and 18 percent (politics)

  • Jens Spahn:

    20 percent (economy) and seven percent (politics)

  • Norbert Röttgen:

    13 percent (economy) and 21 percent (politics)

  • Armin Laschet:

    11 percent (economy) and 35 percent (politics)

New survey hammer for the CDU party leadership: Laschet is catching up massively - but someone else is ahead

Update from January 8, 10:15 p.m.:

The latest

survey

showed it:

Friedrich Merz

is further ahead in the race for the CDU party chairmanship - but the most conservative of the three candidates has few supporters in an important group, women.

A week before the election party conference, the leaders of the

Women's Union

voted

for

Armin Laschet

or

Norbert Röttgen

as the new chairman.

A picture of the mood in a switching conference of the federal executive committee of the women’s union on Thursday showed a slight lead for the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Laschet.

The former chairwoman of the Women's Union,

Rita Süssmuth

, also decided on Laschet in an interview with the German press agency.

First report from January 8, 2021:

Berlin - Laschet is catching up, Merz remains number 1: In a survey on the CDU party chairmanship,

NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet has risen sharply

- despite the

fact that

competitor

Friedrich Merz is

still ahead.

With a plus of ten percentage points, Laschet's values ​​rose to 25 percent compared to November, according to the result of an Infratest Dimap survey on behalf of the ARD among CDU supporters, which was published on Thursday.

Former Union parliamentary group leader

Friedrich Merz continues to lead the polls with 29 percent

.

The third candidate for the party chairmanship, foreign politician Norbert Röttgen, also

caught up slightly and is now level with Laschet (25 percent).

“This is an open race.

It is exciting and will remain exciting until the party congress "

“This is an open race.

It is

exciting

and will remain exciting until the

party congress,

”said Röttgen in an interview in the“ ARD morning magazine ”on Thursday.

The foreign politician caught up in the ARD poll among all eligible voters compared to the November poll (22 percent).

He is now between Friedrich Merz (27 percent) and Armin Laschet (18 percent).

At an online party conference in mid-January, after almost a year of hanging out because of the corona pandemic, the CDU wants to

re-elect

a successor to the outgoing party chairman

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

and the party

leadership

.

The winner should have the best chances for the CDU candidate for chancellor in the federal election in September 2021.

Source: merkur

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