Söder or Laschet? Union bang in the morning - First CDU regional association for Söder

Who does it

Now it is clear: Both Laschet and Söder want the candidacy for chancellor.

The competition within the Union has started.

• The Union summit gave a long-awaited first answer: Both CSU boss Söder and CDU boss Laschet * are looking at Merkel's successor.

• On Monday, both parties will discuss the Union's K question in separate praesidia.

• This news ticker is updated regularly.

Update from April 12, 10:00 a.m .:

The CDU Presidium is already meeting on the Chancellor question - Armin Laschet will have to accept at least one damper: The Berlin CDU is behind CSU leader Markus Söder as the Union's candidate for chancellor.

The presidium of the capital city CDU unanimously voted for a candidacy for the Bavarian Prime Minister, said the CDU state chairman Kai Wegner on Monday.

"Markus Söder is the hands-on, successful crisis manager who can lead Germany out of the pandemic and make the country fit for the future," explained Wegner.

With Armin Laschet and Söder, the Union has two strong Prime Ministers as chairmen of the CDU and CSU, who both have what it takes to be Federal Chancellor, Wegner said, but also said: “We are convinced that people even more trust Markus Söder to do Germany well to lead."

Union: K question - Söder and Laschet reach for the Chancellery, decision on Monday?

First report from April 12th:

Berlin - The pressure has recently been increasing.

Is Armin Laschet reaching out to the Chancellery as the head of the CDU - and thus an obvious candidate for the Union?

Or is it the chairman of the smaller sister party, Markus Söder, who recently duped everyone in polls *?

Both want, that has been clear since the Union summit in Berlin on Sunday.

For the first time, the CSU boss publicly announced that he was throwing his hat into the ring.

And his place might not be in Bavaria forever after all.

And Laschet?

Despite bad poll numbers, he wants to go to Berlin.

Listening to the preferences of both parties has already started.

The first tendencies can be seen. 

After the closed meeting of the parliamentary leaders of the Union, Söder and Laschet declared that they would apply to succeed Merkel.

Both are suitable, both are ready, said Söder at the subsequent press conference.

It is the starting shot of an open competition between CDU boss Laschet and CSU boss Söder.

That would only be the third CSU candidate for chancellor who would dare to rule outside of Bavaria.

Neither Franz Josef Strauss nor Edmund Stoiber made the jump.

Chancellor candidate of the Union: ready to run as chancellor candidate - support also from CDU

The scales on the K question had recently tilted towards Markus Söder.

The call by more than 60 CDU MPs that the decision on the candidate for chancellor should be “discussed in a parliamentary group meeting and, if in doubt, also decided there” is seen as an attempted contribution to strengthening the CSU candidate.

On Monday, April 12, the presidia of the CDU and CSU * will be discussed separately from one another.

The CDU from 9 a.m. in the morning - followed by a board meeting - the CSU in the evening.

It should be about the competing chancellery claims of their respective chairmen.

Laschet already said that he wanted to advertise trust in his candidacy in front of the closest leadership circle of the CDU *.

He left it open whether he would like to have this trust expressed in the form of a resolution.

Merkel's successor: Presidia of the CDU and CSU deliberate separately on the K-issue of the Union

CDU Federal Vice-President Thomas Strobl assumes that the bodies of his party will actually come to a vote on the Union's candidacy for chancellor on Monday.

"The Presidium and the Federal Board are now the right place to discuss and decide the position of the CDU on the candidacy for chancellor," he told

Stuttgarter Zeitung

and

Stuttgarter Nachrichten

.

Söder, in turn, pointed out on Sunday evening that he had “actually” agreed in a conversation with Laschet that “there will be no decision-making now”.

Despite the pandemic, the meeting of the CDU Presidium takes place in presence.

Laschet justified this with the fact that the party was currently in a "decisive phase" because of the course set in the candidate question.

(aka / AFP) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.

Showdown in the Union: Markus Söder will have a possible waiver of the candidacy for chancellor buy off dearly, comments Christian Deutschländer *.

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