"The Amigo crash": CDU and CSU collect poll gossip

The CDU and CSU crash violently in the polls.

Nine corona months and three affairs have badly affected the Union.

Munich - Last summer, the Union was still sunbathing in a 40 percent flight.

Now, nine pandemic months and two amigo affairs later, the CDU and CSU have plummeted to 30 percent nationwide.

CDU and CSU shortly before the elections in the polls low: Now Laschet is under pressure

In Baden-Wuerttemberg, where a new state parliament will be elected next Sunday *, the previous junior partner could even fall out of the government completely: In surveys, the south-west CDU is already eleven points behind the Greens of Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann.

Even an alliance between the Greens and the FDP, a so-called lime coalition (green outside, yellow inside) does not only appear mathematically possible.

The FDP * top candidate Hans-Ulrich Rülke also considers it politically conceivable.

In the fight against the downward trend in the super election year, the alarmed Union top is relying on internal clarification.

CDU boss Armin Laschet *, as a possible candidate for chancellor under pressure to succeed, calls on his party friends to "clean the table" now: "If anyone else has done such business, he will have time to tell me personally very quickly," he said in the ARD.

"If not, we'll do it."

Union crashes violently: Two CDU men in focus - Löbel and Nüßlein are said to have suppressed huge sums

So far, two politicians have been targeted: The Löbel affair: The CDU politician's company is said to have collected commissions of around 250,000 euros because it brokered sales contracts for Corona * masks between a supplier and two private companies.

Löbel has resigned from the CDU * and resigned from the Bundestag.

The Mannheim public prosecutor's office is investigating him.

The Nüßlein affair: The CSU MP is also said to have collected a six-figure sum for brokering supply contracts for FFP2 masks to the federal government and the Bavarian state government.

The Munich Public Prosecutor's Office is investigating him.

He too has resigned from the party and parliamentary group, but he wants to keep his mandate in the Bundestag.

Additional income from German politicians: CDU and CSU MPs collect almost 15 million

But when are people's representatives allowed to work outside the box and how are they regulated?

According to the law on representatives, the exercise of the mandate must be the focus of a member of the Bundestag.

Additional income must be reported if it is more than 1,000 euros a month or 10,000 euros a year.

The sums involved are substantial.

According to the Transparency platform "

Abgeordnetenwatch.de

" conceded deputies of the CDU in the current 19th legislative period until the reporting date 31.07.2020 total of 8.7 million euros in additional income, the CSU 5.7 million, the FDP 5 million, the SPD 2.3 million, the AfD 1.8 million, the Left 822,000 and the Greens 122,000 euros.

(AW)

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