“It sucks!” CDU MPs call on Laschet to resign - and provide an ultimatum

Armin Laschet probably wants to rely more on his team in the last few weeks during the election campaign.

In the meantime, however, he is also confronted with calls for resignation.

Berlin - For Armin Laschet * it is apparently getting tighter: The Union's polls a few weeks before the federal elections * are comparatively bad, and his personal values ​​even more.

First the Greens were the direct opponent, now it is the SPD.

But the party around Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock * is not far away at the moment.

Everyone should pull together, the CSU said again on Thursday - but the grumbling is quite loud. At a meeting of the Union parliamentary group, the Düsseldorf CDU member Sylvia Pantel is said to have even asked the CDU leader Laschet to “draw the conclusions if the polls don't get better in two weeks”. At least that's what the

and refers to groups of participants. The request to withdraw from the top candidacy was unmistakable. "It is better to react briefly and painfully than to go under together," Pantel is quoted as saying. The MP Axel Müller (CDU *) also jumped at her: "In a word: It sucks!" The Laschet, who was also connected, is said to have not responded to the demands.

Armin Laschet before the general election: a team solution should be found

In contrast, parliamentary group leader Ralph Brinkhaus (CDU) apparently joins the rhetoric of “pulling together”.

The MP Andreas Mattfeldt (CDU), in turn, is said to have pleaded for the CDU team to be presented more alongside Laschet.

Laschet also seems to be thinking in this direction - he could get the opportunity for the presentation on Saturday. The top of the Union then wants to start the final phase of the federal election in a central kick-off event in Berlin. "We must and will show more heads and make it so clear that we are a strong team," the CDU boss was quoted on Friday according to information from participants in the online meeting of dpa. With the topics of the Union, the prominent heads of the Union would also become visible in a team in the next few weeks, announced Laschet. He said: “While the SPD has to hide its people, we can proudly show our competent minds. Both from the federal states and from the parliamentary group. ”The breadth of the Union should become visible.

Union heralds the start of the election campaign on Saturday - Blume expects "full throttle"

The event on Saturday will certainly show once again how closed the Union can appear.

CSU * General Secretary Markus Blume is already building again: "I think it is urgently necessary that we as a Union now make it clear that the Chancellor candidate says which way he wants for Germany," he said on Friday in the RTL / ntv show "Frühstart".

In response to his demands on Laschet during the election campaign, Blume said: “There is only one word that is necessary now: Full throttle, we have to go to speed.”