Chancellor candidate Laschet: In WhatsApp groups, fear should already bypass - "I'm stunned"

The power struggle within the Union is now over and Armin Laschet emerges victorious.

He will lead the Union into the race for chancellorship, but many CDU / CSU supporters are not enthusiastic.

Berlin - It's decided. Armin Laschet is the Union's candidate for chancellor *. The CDU executive board has deliberately ignored the mood of the party base. A majority of the state and district associations would have preferred Markus Söder as a candidate for chancellor. In surveys among the population, the CSU boss Markus Söder was well ahead of his opponent Armin Laschet. Nevertheless, in the end it was decided in favor of Armin Laschet *, who was recently elected CDU leader. He is said to have made it clear on Monday that the CDU would not support a candidate for Chancellor Markus Söder.

Söder asked on Monday whether the CDU * would support him if the election fell on him.

Armin Laschet * is said to have answered with a clear “no”, reports the

.

Laschet is said to have said that the CDU cannot, should and will not let the candidate for chancellor be taken out of their hands, pointing out the difficult situation of his party.

The present CSU delegation, which was next to CSU leader Markus Söder from Markus Blume and CSU party leader Alexander Dobrindt, could the reasoning of the CDU leaders to

-Information not understood.

Surely Laschet could not seriously argue with the weakness of his party in order to gain access to the candidacy for chancellor?

However, this question remained unanswered and in the end Markus Söder gave up.

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"In my opinion, that will cost the party dearly," said political scientist Albrecht von Lucke on Tuesday in the

Journal.

He thought the decision of the CDU leadership to push Armin Laschet through, even though the party base was against it, was a mistake.

Now Armin Laschet has to reunite the Union after the power struggle.

But is it that simple?

The politicians from within their own ranks are very worried and would have simply wished for another candidate.

A member of parliament from northern Germany reported to

that fear was now going around in her WhatsApp groups. "Many are already seeing the black for their Bundestag mandate after the upcoming election," she continues. It looks similar in the CDU in Saxony. "I am stunned how the federal executive board could decide against the interests of the party base", the member of a district association is said to have said and at the same time asked to be allowed to remain anonymous. After all, the situation is "very heated at the moment". A somewhat more positive statement comes from Schleswig-Holstein, here too the majority of the base spoke up

for Markus Söder.

"I don't want to deny that many members would have wished for a different candidate for Chancellor, but we now have a representative democracy and that counts in the end," says the parliamentary manager of the CDU parliamentary group in Schleswig-Holstein, Hans-Jörn Arp, towards

.

Union crashes in Forsa survey - the Greens are now the strongest force

Following the decision of the Chancellor candidates by the Greens and the Union, a new survey shows a clear picture. With Annalena Baerbock and Armin Laschet as candidates for chancellor, the Union's Forsa polls have collapsed - the Greens, on the other hand, have seen a big plus. According to the so-called

barometer from the market and opinion institute Forsa, the political mood is changing in favor of the Greens. After the Union had chosen Armin Laschet as the top candidate on Tuesday, the Union fell by seven percentage points compared to the previous week (from 28 to 21 percent).

The decision to send Annalena Baerbock into the race for the Greens *, on the other hand, spurred the polls of her party. Compared to April 13, the Greens have gained five percentage points and with 28 percent they have now overtaken the Union and are in first place in the polls. The SPD * loses two percentage points and comes to 13 percent. The FDP * wins two, the Left * and the smaller parties win one percentage point each. Only at the AfD * did the polls remain unchanged. However, the journalist Theo Koll says on

-Journal today that the survey results must be kept in mind that they may be a snapshot. The survey was shaped by the perceptions of the last week, when there was a power struggle in the Union * and a peaceful decision by the Greens. Nevertheless, it is a signal and perhaps also a wake-up call to the Union.