Tired election campaign? Laschet brings his own party to despair: "That doesn't convince anyone"

Armin Laschet and the CDU / CSU are flying low.

The polls are getting worse and worse, the criticism is growing.

“We ask ourselves what he actually does all day”.

Berlin - The Union is trembling, especially about government participation.

After the CDU / CSU were clearly in the lead in the polls a few weeks ago, they are now losing percentage point by percentage point among the opinion polls.

The Union knows that the current situation - just like the good survey results before - is only a snapshot and everything is still possible.

The specter of the opposition still haunts the Konrad-Adenauer-Haus.

The frustration with Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet is growing.

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Bundestag election: criticism of the Union from within our own ranks - "that doesn't convince anyone"

In view of the weak polls, leading CDU politicians are therefore calling for more momentum in their own party's election campaign. Schleswig-Holstein's Prime Minister Daniel Günther (CDU) told the

Handelsblatt

about the election campaign so far: "That doesn't convince anyone." “We have to focus on the issues that are important to the people.” The claim of the CDU / CSU must be to achieve “at least 30 percent” in the federal election - and “we are currently not meeting our own demands “, Criticized Günther.

The Federal Government's Eastern Commissioner and CDU member of the Bundestag, Marco Wanderwitz, was also dissatisfied.

"As a union, we have not yet managed to make it clear to the citizens that with Armin Laschet we have the best personnel offer and the best content offer," he told the

Rheinische Post

.

"We have to add more."

Bundestag election: polls for Laschet and Union - CDU / CSU just ahead of the Greens and SPD

Despite falling polls, nothing was lost for the Union a good six weeks before the election, said Wanderwitz.

“My feeling is that many voters don't really know who they want to entrust the land to after Angela Merkel.

The CDU has to work out that red-red-green or a traffic light would lead our country into a dead end on the left. ”According to current surveys, both alliances would be mathematically possible.

The Union in the opposition?

The polls for the Union and especially for the Chancellor candidate Laschet had fallen in recent weeks.

A current Forsa survey sees the CDU / CSU at 23 percent - and thus just ahead of the Greens (20 percent) and the SPD (19 percent).

Laschet only got twelve percent approval in the survey - behind Green Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock and Olaf Scholz from the SPD.

Bundestag election: "We wonder what Armin Laschet actually does all day"

The Union is heading for the worst drop-out in a federal election (31 percent so far, 1949).

The criticism of Laschet is growing due to these devastating poll numbers - and is now increasingly coming from within our own ranks.

Recently, individual CDU politicians have already called for a change of course and a more active election campaign.

Laschet must finally get on the offensive, complained about the CDU member of the Bundestag Michael von Abercron.

"It would be good if our candidate for chancellor would also excel in terms of content," he told 

Spiegel

.

His colleague Peter Bleser (Rhineland-Palatinate) demanded that Laschet “deal more with the most pressing issues of the future”.

In addition to content-related matters, there is currently more and more criticism due to the nature of the election campaign.

Laschet should show a lot more presence, they say.

"We ask ourselves what Armin Laschet actually does all day," complains an unnamed member of the Southwest CDU to

Focus Online

.

In contrast to the other candidates for chancellor, Laschet is seen far too seldom.

The fact that the Union postponed its election campaign in Rust fits into the picture: Election campaign, what for?

It should start on August 21st.

Much later than the competition from the SPD and the Greens.

Bundestag election: Günther observes "hangers" - "but that also means that things have to go up again"

Prime Minister Günther warned his party against a debate about the candidate. "We as a Union answered the question of who would be the top candidate for us in the election campaign," emphasized Günther, who was one of the first prime ministers to stand up for Laschet instead of CSU boss Markus Söder in the Chancellor dispute. “We are wisely advised to pull everyone together now.” He expressly referred the appeal for unity to the CSU. "Because a common success that we achieve with unity is also a success for the CSU," said Günther.

The CDU politician cited the flood disaster as the reason for the Union's previous difficulties in the election campaign, which required Laschet's attention and prevented him from participating in the election campaign. The North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister was and is challenged in the flood areas. However, this also applies to Finance Minister Scholz. Nevertheless, due to the flood disaster, “there is a certain hangover in the surveys,” said Günther. "But hanging also means that things have to go up again."

(As / afp)