The polls are bad, the mood is poor.
The Union is currently not giving its best picture.
An exchange of chancellors is now also being discussed.
Berlin - Helpful appeal in the course of the election campaign or counterproductive own goal?
More and more Union politicians are currently expressing themselves on the situation within their own party.
Because clear words are sometimes chosen, the question arises to what extent this should help the CDU / CSU, who are not quite confident in any case.
Bundestag election: Wandering joke with a “wake-up call at the right time”?
Criticism of Laschet and Union
First the polls stagnated, now they are falling. The Union still ranks first in the polls for the federal election, but the lead over the competition is melting. The SPD and the Greens are hot on the heels of the longstanding Chancellor Party. To make matters worse: according to surveys, CDU boss Armin Laschet is the most unpopular of all candidates for chancellor. The criticism of him grows.
The CDU politician Marco Wanderwitz has taken the Union to court because of the current situation.
The vote at the end of September was "completely open", said Wanderwitz on Thursday evening in the ARD "Tagesthemen".
So far, “all of us” have obviously not been able to convince to the extent “with our personnel offers and also with our content-related offers, as we would like ourselves to”.
There is a good election platform from the CDU and CSU, "and we have to bring that to women and men".
Wanderwitz spoke of a “wake-up call at the right time”.
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Eastern Commissioner Marco Wanderwitz (archive photo)
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Bundestag election: Wanderwitz about Söder-Laschet exchange - "These surveys are the problem"
When asked about a survey in which the majority of Union supporters wished that CSU leader Markus Söder should replace Laschet, Wanderwitz said: "Of course, I see these surveys too, they also see our campaigners, they see the candidates.
And yes, they put their fingers in the wound there, so to speak.
These polls are the problem and so we have to work to change the polls. "
The Federal Government's Eastern Commissioner said: "I would like to win this election and that assumes that the two party chairmen and many others in the team work hand in hand with one another and do not point fingers at each other."
(as / dpa)
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