It will be hot in the election campaign for the federal election - and also in the race for the Union's candidacy for chancellor.
In the “Sunday trend” there is only one possible coalition.
Berlin - It is eagerly awaited which candidate for chancellor the Union is now sending into the race.
An answer to the question is expected by next Monday, April 19.
It seems clear: On today's day of the Union Summit, no final answer can be expected as to whether the Union parties rely on Markus Söder (CSU) or Armin Laschet (CDU).
Söder first expressed his interest in the candidacy for chancellor at the closed meeting of the union leaders on Sunday.
In spite of the discussion about the question of the candidate for chancellor, according to a recent poll, the Union is growing slightly in favor of the voters.
In the current “Sunday trend” of the Kantar Institute for “Bild am Sonntag”, the CDU and CSU come to 27 percent, one point more than in the previous week.
The Greens lose one point and reach 22 percent.
The SPD also has to give up one point, it comes to 15 percent.
The AfD increases by one point to eleven percent.
The FDP and the Left are unchanged at nine percent each, as the survey showed.
Survey: Union is ahead with 27 percent - According to the Sunday trend, only one coalition is possible
This means that neither a green-led traffic light coalition nor a green-red-red alliance would currently have a majority.
Mathematically, black-green would be possible, but not a continuation of the grand coalition.
1448 people were surveyed from March 31 to April 7.
The polls for the Union should not be entirely independent of the question of who for the CDU / CSU should go into the Bundestag election campaign in December: Söder or Laschet?
Söder versus Laschet: who will be the CDU / CSU's candidate for chancellor?
The hot duel begins
According to the poll values from Bild am Sonntag, voters have a clear favorite for the Union on this point - and it is not new.
Markus Söder is ahead of the possible Green Chancellor candidates Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock in terms of popularity.
Also before Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who runs for the SPD.
A damper for Armin Laschet *, who has just made the race for the party leadership of the Union and is behind Habeck and Baerbock in the voter poll?
So far, the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister has not been unsettled by Söder's popularity.
He is determined to have made the race for the Prime Minister's office in North Rhine-Westphalia, although he had previously been in second place in surveys for weeks.
The fact that Söder officially announced his readiness to run for chancellor at the Union summit in Berlin does not seem to unsettle North Rhine-Westphalia - and instead teases the SPD: "The SPD has no one who can - we have two. "