Markus Söder rejects all chancellor ambitions.
At the start of the CSU election campaign, he tries to back up Laschet as much as he can.
Unterschleißheim / Berlin - The conservatives were in record low polls when Markus Söder * stepped onto the stage on Tuesday, August 24th at 6 p.m. in Unterschleißheim and started the crucial phase of the federal election campaign with his CSU. For the first time in 15 years, the SPD has overtaken the Union in the polls *. Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet is counted, Söder's confrontation course is not entirely innocent. On Tuesday evening, the Bavarian Prime Minister made two things clear - one very offensively, the other rather half-heartedly.
Thing number one, the half-hearted one.
It's about Armin Laschet *: Even if Söder spoke pictorially of "tie" and the "hot phase" of the game at the beginning of his speech at the official election campaign of the CSU * in the converted Hans Bayer Stadium of the amateur soccer club SV Lohhof, it works Union currently far from the winning goal.
Laschet met him early on in the election campaign.
And missed.
CSU election campaign kick-off: Söder omits the name Laschet wherever possible
At 7:06 p.m. the time had come: more than an hour after the start of the CSU general election campaign, the name Armin Laschet was mentioned for the first time in the stadium in Unterschleißheim.
"Anyone who wants a pragmatic chancellor cannot think of Olaf Scholz *," said CSU boss Markus Söder.
He would rather have a pragmatist like Laschet who knows where people are hurting.
In his 47-minute speech, Söder mentioned the Union Chancellor candidate exactly five times.
Once to report on the special relationship between the two party leaders;
another time, because the Union remains in government with Laschet.
Only almost at the end of his speech does he become more passionate: “Armin Laschet can only become chancellor with a lot of voices from the south,” shouts Söder.
CSU election campaign: Söder has finished with the Chancellery - forever
Even if Markus Söder is conciliatory and loyal at the start of the CSU election campaign, the fierce power struggle for the candidacy for chancellor reverberates - even outside of Bavaria. “With Söder at the top we wouldn't have the problems now,” say many Christian Socialists. Because unlike in the stadium in Unterschleißheim, Laschet's name is omnipresent in the CSU these days. His name is almost always heard when the party asked for explanations for the disastrous situation of the CDU and CSU in the polls. Quite a few Union voters and members would have preferred to see Markus Söder in Laschet's place.
Söder put a stop to the discussions about the Union's candidacy for chancellor today.
The CSU boss Markus Söder rejected any further ambitions for a candidate for chancellor - for this year * as well as for the election in four years.
"I made an offer once, a second time it doesn't work at all," said the Bavarian Prime Minister on Tuesday the broadcaster
münchen.tv
.
He is now fully focused on Bavaria.
K question in the Union: Markus Söder, Armin Laschet and a "pipe dream"
Söder again rejected the accusation that he wanted to deliberately weaken Laschet through targeted taunts. “I want us to be successful as the CSU and to be able to make Armin Laschet Chancellor.” As soon as he utters even a “hint” of independent CSU positions, he will be made a critic. The recent debate about a change of the Union Chancellor candidate is just a pipe dream.
Union Chancellor candidate Laschet also wrongly got off very badly in the public debate.
"I think that it is clearly undervalued," Söder told the broadcaster.
"All these little things" that now played a role in the debate would push his qualities into the background, which he had already demonstrated as head of government in North Rhine-Westphalia.
“He's a very, very good politician.”
(Jo / dpa) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA
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