Will Markus Söder become Federal Chancellor?
An election - or just the list as a candidate - would also have consequences for Nuremberg, the hometown of the CSU boss.
Nuremberg - You can currently see it often on German television: The city of Nuremberg.
Mostly in the background, namely when Markus Söder gives a TV interview.
The Nuremberg Imperial Castle and the Sebaldus Church can be seen regularly as extras when the CSU * boss - currently probably Nuremberg * most famous citizen - is switched on in news broadcasts to talk about the current Corona * situation.
Will Söder be a candidate for chancellor?
Hometown Nuremberg would come into focus
But that could only have been a foretaste: If Bavaria's Prime Minister actually becomes a candidate for Chancellor or even becomes Chancellor after the federal election, the Franconian metropolis may be even more of a focus.
Because a chancellor gets a lot more attention than a prime minister.
Everything about a head of government is apparently interesting: How he lives, where he shops and whether and when he goes to church.
With CDU * boss Armin Laschet, the CDU's potential chancellor candidate, it was considered worth mentioning that he brings his waste glass to the container himself, as
reported by
nordbayern.de
.
The candidate's hometown also comes into focus.
Helmut Kohl, for example, was continuously referred to by some media as "the Oggersheimer".
Oggersheim is a district of Ludwigshafen - this is where Kohl was born.
Nürnberg - Mittelfranke reports: "I was asked about pretty much everything you can ask someone about Söder"
Since Söder - who was born in Nuremberg - has not only been Prime Minister and CSU boss, but has also repeatedly been speculated about a possible candidacy as Chancellor, something has changed in Germany's capital Berlin, as
reported by
nordbayern.de
.
Events with the CSU boss are now mandatory dates for media representatives.
Every Berliner by choice with roots in Franconia is also considered a Söder expert - simply because they come from the same region.
A native of Middle Franconia who has been working in Berlin for years has already had experience with it.
"I was asked about everything you can ask someone about Markus Söder," he told
nordbayern.de
.
Business partners and friends wanted to know, among other things, whether everyone in Bavaria is really Catholic - or whether the Franconian and Upper Bavarian dialects are very different.
Also often asked: What would people think of Söder in Nuremberg?
Due to the possible candidate for Chancellor Söders: Nuremberg moves into focus
“Nobody has been interested in my homeland as much as it is now for a long time.
Except maybe during the best times of the club, ”the man took stock of the portal.
Kristina Dunz, journalist and deputy head of the Berlin office of the editorial network Germany, has the impression that Söder is perceived by the rest of Germany as a Bavarian rather than a Franconian.
"People don't really know their way around the government districts in the Free State," quotes
nordbayern.de
the journalist.
“Really ingeniously made,” says Dunz, looking at some of the pictures of Söder.
By this she means, among other things, the appearance with Angela Merkel on the Herrenchiemsee.
The appearance of Armin Laschet with the Chancellor in the Ruhr area, on the other hand, did not get stuck in people's minds.
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Markus Söder and Federal Chancellor Merkel are going to the Herrenchiemsee island on a Chiemsee-Schifffahrt ship.
© Peter Kneffel / dpa / Pool / dpa +++ dpa-Bildfunk +++
Is Markus Söder moving?
Rumors hit the headlines - the CSU boss spoke up
Söder probably got more out of Bavaria than his predecessor Horst Seehofer, believes the journalist.
In the latter case, disputes were often associated with arguments, for example when Chancellor Merkel was disgraced.
Söder, on the other hand, appears more positive and thus achieves more, she told
nordbayern.de
.
Söder recently experienced for himself how much the place where politicians live can make headlines. After rumors began to emerge that he wanted to relocate the center of his life from Nuremberg * to Mögeldorf, the CSU boss even commented on it himself.
The residents suffered from the rumors, there was even a “photo tourism”. When trying to photograph Markus Söder's allegedly new residence, no stopping was made at gates, fences and gardens, it was said.
Markus Söder meets Angela Merkel at Herrenchiemsee Palace
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Will Söder be a (Chancellor) candidate or not?
"Part of the pictures will stay"
But what happens now if Söder shouldn't become a (Chancellor) candidate?
Dunz suspects to
nordbayern.de
that the nationwide attention for Söder and Franconia will still not be over.
"Some of the pictures as we know them from the past months and weeks will remain," she says.
The reason: Even as the head of the CSU and Bavaria's Prime Minister, Söder remains the second most important personality in the Union alongside Armin Laschet - and will therefore remain in the conversation.
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