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Federal election 2021: Most of the Union supporters for a change of chancellor candidate

2021-08-25T05:30:35.770Z


In the spring, Armin Laschet prevailed against Markus Söder in the race for the candidacy for chancellor. According to a Civey survey, 70 percent of the supporters of the CDU and CSU would now like to change that.


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Söder and Laschet: In the spring, both had fought openly for the candidacy for chancellor

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Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet is under pressure.

The polls are falling.

Initial polls already see the SPD as the strongest political force in the country.

And the candidate for chancellor is also losing support among the supporters of the CDU and CSU.

  • According to a Civey survey, 70 percent of the supporters of the CDU and CSU are in favor of replacing the Union Chancellor candidate Laschet with CSU boss Markus Söder.

  • According to a survey carried out by the polling institute on behalf of the Augsburger Allgemeine, only 23 percent of the Union's supporters are in favor of holding on to Laschet's candidacy.

  • Another seven percent answered the question "Should CSU chief Markus Söder, in your opinion, replace CDU chief Armin Laschet as candidate for Union chancellor?"

In the general population, a majority of 52 percent are in favor of a candidate change, 38 percent are against.

One in ten said it was a draw.

Laschet is faced with poor poll numbers.

It was only on Tuesday that a Forsa survey became known, according to which the SPD is again the strongest political force in Germany in a Sunday issue a good month before the federal election for the first time in years.

In the trend barometer of the institute for RTL and n-tv, the social democrats come to 23 percent, the Union reaches 22 percent.

According to his own statements, Söder no longer has any ambitions to become chancellor

In principle, election surveys only reflect the opinion at the time of the survey and are not a prognosis for the outcome of the election.

You are also always fraught with uncertainties.

Among other things, declining party ties and increasingly short-term voting decisions make it more difficult for opinion research institutes to weight the data collected.

According to his own account, CSU boss Söder has no further ambitions for a candidate for chancellor - neither currently nor in four years.

"I made an offer once, a second time doesn't bring anything at all," said the Bavarian Prime Minister on Tuesday the broadcaster münchen.tv.

The recent debate about changing the candidate for the Union Chancellor is just a pipe dream.

Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) demanded an "explanatory offensive" from the Union: "We have to (...) tell the Germans what they will get if they vote for the CDU / CSU in the federal elections," he told the Funke newspapers. Media group.

“After years of the grand coalition, we have to press the bourgeois reset button for Germany.

Instead, the election campaign in Germany is rippling along. "

asc / dpa

Source: spiegel

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