CSU boss Söder now wants - from Bavaria to Berlin.
The decision could have massive consequences for the Free State.
Munich / Berlin - For a long time, the Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) skilfully avoided questions about his ambitions for a chancellorship.
And yet: Now the long suspected scenario is official.
The CSU boss agreed to accept the candidacy for chancellor for the Union.
Together with the CDU, they will find out within the party who will ultimately run for the Union.
For months, surveys have seen the Bayern boss well ahead, NRW Prime Minister Laschet doesn't even come close to the spheres of the Franconia - at the weekend there was even a poll gossip in the home for the CDU boss.
So the chances shouldn't be too bad for Söder to actually become Merkel's designated successor.
However, the decision also brings a scenario into play that could upset politics in the Free State of Bavaria.
Chancellor question: Söder declares readiness - decision could have consequences for Bavaria
In September it will be three years since Markus Söder * was elected Prime Minister of Bavaria.
After a long power struggle with his predecessor Horst Seehofer, meanwhile interior minister in the federal government, he fulfilled his dream.
Right at the top of the CSU, Bavarian Prime Minister.
Arrived?
It seems that the last three years have increased Söder's ambitions.
Now it should be the big hit.
“My place is in Bavaria”, the commitment to the current position, repeated almost in a mantra-like manner, seems to be more and more insecure.
But it is precisely this place in Bavaria that would become free if the Union took the Bavarian option.
What would that mean for the Free State?
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Up until Söder's announcement, the CSU never discussed this question in public - admittedly, the willingness to stand for candidacy had not yet been officially clarified.
Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) should at least start talking.
Another conceivable candidate for the successor in the State Chancellery would be the current President of the State Parliament, Ilse Aigner - that would definitely be in the interests of the Women's Union.
Söder had also repeatedly praised Aigner.
According to reports, the names of two ministers who are not very familiar to most Bavarians were also mentioned last summer: Albert Füracker (Finance) and State Chancellor Florian Herrmann.
Of course, it would also be conceivable that Söder would take up the position, but the Union would no longer find its way into the Chancellery.
The question of whether a defeated Union candidate would take on the role of opposition leader in the Bundestag after the federal election * was left open on Sunday by both Laschet - who is currently Prime Minister like Söder - and the CSU chief.
The former CSU chairman Erwin Huber did not want to see a possible defeat in a conversation with Bayerischer Rundfunk as a beacon for Söders career: "He has such a strong position in the CSU, as was the case most recently with Strauss," emphasized Huber with a view of the Franconian Söder.
Candidate for chancellor: will Söders place in Bavaria be free?
Merz sees
For the CSU, which recently managed to win again strongly in Bavaria, a departure from Söders would in any case be a bitter loss.
Through him, an absolute majority in the next state election in 2023 was again conceivable.
Shortly before the weekend, Friedrich Merz (CDU) commented on this “danger” in Bavaria: “The CDU cannot actually let the candidate for chancellor be taken away,” Merz
clarified
in a conversation with the
Westfälischer Anzeiger *
- Armin Laschet also has “unchanged good chances".
Only Söder could win the Bavarian state election in 2023 with an absolute majority for the CSU, said Merz.
For the CSU, a nomination of Söder would also have detrimental consequences in terms of internal relations with the CDU, he warned.
With all speculations about a possible successor to Markus Söder in Bavaria, one thing is certain: the willingness to run Söder could get things rolling.
In Bavaria and also in Germany.
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lso / fn
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