CSU boss Markus Söder speaks in the ZDF summer interview about a “strange” election campaign - and criticizes the vaccination statements made by his vice-president Hubert Aiwanger.
CSU * boss Markus Söder * has complained that the Union's election campaign with its candidate for chancellor Armin Laschet * is too passive
(see original report)
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In addition, Bavaria's Prime Minister criticized his Vice Hubert Aiwanger on the subject of corona vaccination
(see update from August 1, 7:25 p.m.)
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Söder also addresses the K question again
(see update from August 1, 7:31 p.m.)
and what Laschet is now delivering
(see update from August 1, 7:23 p.m.)
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Update from August 1, 7:55 p.m
.: In their dispute over corona vaccinations, Bavaria's Deputy Prime Minister Aiwanger has
sharply rejected
new criticism from Söder *
(see update from August 1, 7:25 p.m.)
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The dpa reports.
Söder renewed his criticism of Aiwanger's vaccination argument on Sunday in the ZDF summer interview - who then countered sharply, accused the CSU chairman of a deliberate false assertion and spoke of "insolence".
Söder at the time of the new Corona entry regulation: "That annoys me"
Update from August 1, 7:35 p.m
.: Apart from his wish to see a more aggressive Union election campaign
(see original
message )
, there was also room for the topic of corona policy in the ZDF summer interview.
With a view to one of the decisive election campaign issues, Söder complained that it had taken far too long again until the new entry regulation came into effect: "That annoys me."
At the same time, it is important that the health ministers speak out at their conference on Monday for more vaccination offers for 12 to 17-year-olds in the vaccination centers *.
Söder again refused to be vaccinated, as this would divide society.
Instead, he is betting on convincing people through incentives.
This includes, for example, the constitutionally required return of all freedoms for people who have been vaccinated twice.
Söder on ZDF on the Union's candidacy for chancellor: "Probably would have just won"
Update from August 1, 7:31 p.m
.: The broadcast of the ZDF summer interview with Söder has ended.
With a view to the struggle between him and Laschet for the Union chancellor candidacy, Söder says: "I would have probably just won if I had had a tough argument".
However, this would not have been good for the Union's election campaign, so he did not do it.
Now applies to him: "It is finished" and "I want us to win together".
For this, however, the Union “still has to do a lot,” said Söder, without naming Laschet directly.
His concern is that in the end there could be a majority in favor of a traffic light alliance of the Greens, SPD and FDP without the Union.
He wanted to prevent that.
Update from August 1st, 7:29 pm
: "Wind is just not that successful in Bavaria," believes Söder.
Otherwise, Bavaria would be ahead in many areas of climate policy (CO2 emissions, for example) in a comparison of the federal states, he replied to Kolls' skeptical introductory question about the expansion of wind power in Bavaria.
Here, Bavaria lags behind in a country comparison because of its very strict distance rules.
Although there should be limited relief here too, the CSU boss admits, but refers to resistance in the population.
Söder in the ZDF summer interview: Vaccine skeptic Aiwanger maneuvered himself into political sideline
Update from August 1, 7:25 p.m
.: Keyword Hubert Aiwanger: Bavaria's Minister of Economic Affairs, who publicly expressed himself as a vaccine skeptic. Wouldn't it be appropriate to fire him? Asks the ZDF journalist. Söder replies that the Free Voters are a reliable coalition partner. He pointed out that Aiwanger had so far supported every decision on the anti-corona measures in the Bavarian cabinet. He therefore sees no reason to fire him.
And the personal answer to the question of willingness to be vaccinated is up to everyone. But he doesn't like the "sound", Aiwanger's choice of words. "My concern is that he will maneuver himself into a corner from which he can no longer get out." . "You have to be careful," said Söder.
Update from August 1st, 7:23 pm
: Söder indicates that the corona policy is now “setting the course”. Koll underestimates Söder Laschet's “strategy of ambiguity”, with which Chancellor Angela Merkel has always done well, says Koll. Söder emphasizes Laschet's experience in government as Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia. “Laschet has a position,” says Söder with conviction. "That will get even stronger in the next few weeks."
Update from August 1, 7:18 p.m
.: The question about Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet.
“They give the feeling that they are of the opinion that they are the better shot,” Koll alludes to Söder's ambitions for chancellor.
He fends off: “No, no.” But he has the feeling that the Union must do more in the election campaign, says Söder, without naming Laschet directly.
"If you want to decide for yourself who to react with, you have to be strong and confident," says Söder.
Söder on ZDF: Passive union election campaign is the cause of bad polls
Update from August 1st, 7:14 pm
: In the Max Morlock Stadium in Nuremberg, the CSU boss gives the ZDF his summer interview ("I've already spent many, many hours here - even painful ones," said soccer fan Söder). For interviewer Theo Koll, the transition to the topic of polls, which are anything but brilliant for the Union. For Söder, these are partly the result of a “strange” election campaign
(see previous update)
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Update from August 1st, 6.46 p.m
.: CSU boss Markus Söder sees the election campaign so far very critically
(see original
message )
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So far it is "almost all about trivialities", he said in the ZDF summer interview, according to a preliminary announcement - "about any books, about résumés, about laughs, and almost never about the crucial questions".
He would like a change here.
The conversation will be broadcast in full on this Sunday at 7.10 p.m. on ZDF.
We will then report continuously at this point.
Federal election 2021: Söder calls for "more power" in the CDU / CSU election campaign
Our original message from August 1st
: Nuremberg - “Just get a little offensive”: According to CSU boss Markus Söder *, the Union is responsible for its increasingly deteriorating survey results * because of its passive election campaign.
As in football, it is advisable to "just storm again yourself and be a little offensive," said Bavaria's Prime Minister on Sunday in the ZDF summer interview in Nuremberg, according to dpa.
The whole conversation will be televised from 7.10 p.m.
In the latest surveys *, the CDU * / CSU * only come up with values between 27 and 28 percent, in the meantime it was more than 30 percent.
Söder zu Laschet in the ZDF summer interview: I'm a “driver” in the election campaign
Söder emphasized that he expected a more aggressive strategy for the election campaign in the coming weeks: “It has to come now.” In the assessment, there are no differences with the Union Chancellor candidate and CDU leader Armin Laschet *: “We agree, we just need more speed and power, ”said Söder.
He sees his own role in the election campaign alongside Laschet as a “driver”, said Söder.
After the CDU and CSU were able to improve in the past weeks due to the mistakes of the others in the surveys, the Union is now back to the previous low level.
His concern is that the "strange election campaign" will continue to ripple and that in the end the Union will not be strong and sovereign enough to form a government due to a lack of commitment.
Corona: Söder railed against the time for new entry regulations - "That annoys me"
With a view to the Corona crisis * - also as one of the decisive election campaign topics - Söder complained that it had taken far too long again before the new entry regulation came in: "That annoys me." At the same time, it is important that the health ministers agree with theirs Conference on Monday for more vaccination offers for 12 to 17 year olds in the vaccination centers.
Söder again refused to be vaccinated, as this would divide society.
Instead, he is betting on convincing people through incentives.
This includes, for example, the constitutionally required return of all freedoms for people who have been vaccinated twice.
(dpa / frs)
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