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Survey defeat for Armin Laschet - but Germans apparently want another candidate for chancellor

2021-01-29T18:05:19.312Z


The designated CDU chairman Armin Laschet suffers a cracking poll defeat. Only 21 percent of those questioned trust him to be a candidate for chancellor.


The designated CDU chairman Armin Laschet suffers a cracking poll defeat.

Only 21 percent of those questioned trust him to be a candidate for chancellor.

Berlin - On Friday afternoon, the

CDU

wants to

make official what a week ago at the 33rd party conference of the

Christian Democratic Union

was decided.

Armin Laschet

*

succeeds

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer

as

party chairman

*

and can therefore expect good chances of becoming

the Union's

candidate for chancellor

in the upcoming

federal election

.

For legal reasons, his election at the digital party conference must be confirmed by the delegates by postal vote.

Armin Laschet: Harsh poll defeat for the new CDU chairman

A process that is considered a purely formality.

The only interesting

thing is

whether

Laschet's

lead over his competitor

Friedrich Merz

*

grows or shrinks by a few votes from 55 votes.

What

should be a successful day

for

Armin Laschet

, however, starts with a sobering

defeat in the

survey

.

A Kantar

survey

commissioned by the Funke media group

wanted to know from the German population which Union candidate they are

calculating the best chance of victory

in the upcoming

federal election

.

The sobering result: only 21 percent of those surveyed consider the designated

CDU leader Laschet

to be the best

candidate

for

chancellor

.

+

Who will be the Union's candidate for chancellor?

CDU chairman Armin Laschet or CSU boss Markus Söder?

© Michael Kappeler / dpa-Pool / dpa

Chancellor candidate of the Union: 43 percent of Germans are in favor of Markus Söder

On the other hand, 43 percent of those questioned voted for the Bavarian

Prime Minister

and

CSU leader Markus Söder *

as

the Union's

best

candidate for chancellor

.

A clear defeat for Armin Laschet.

Due to his election as

CDU chairman, the

59-year-old is

considered the most promising candidate for

the Union's

candidacy for

chancellor

.

Markus Söder

had repeatedly emphasized in the past that he saw his place in Bavaria.

Nevertheless, the Bavarian Prime Minister is considered a potential candidate for Chancellor, mainly because of his popularity.

After Franz-Josef Strauss and Edmund Stoiber, the 54-year-old would only be the third candidate for Chancellor to be offered by the CSU *.

(fd) * merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital editors network

List of rubric lists: © Marcel Kusch / dpa POOL / dpa

Source: merkur

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