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Merz in Laschet's “Future Team” - his statement from August reveals wild CDU turnaround

2021-09-03T09:53:23.362Z


The Bundestag election campaign is slowly entering the final sprint and the Union Chancellor candidate presents his “future team”. But one statement from Merz is still irritating.


The Bundestag election campaign is slowly entering the final sprint and the Union Chancellor candidate presents his “future team”.

But one statement from Merz is still irritating.

Berlin - Not so long ago, CDU politician Friedrich Merz said a surprising sentence: "Armin Laschet decided not to introduce a team." A medium-sized Laschet bomb and a surprising change of heart. More votes from within, including CDU leader Markus Söder, asked for fresh faces in the federal election campaign. But the same Merz, whose said statement a few weeks ago the CDU U-turn now exposed, is now exactly that: part of the new “future team” of a candidate for chancellor who has come under pressure.

The polls speak a gloomy language for the CDU / CSU.

The Social Democrats in first place, their own candidate even in last place in terms of voter preference.

It will be judged by a group of experts, which Laschet officially presented on Friday (September 3rd) in the Konrad-Adenauer-Haus in Berlin.

The eight-person team around the former parliamentary group leader Friedrich Merz is entering the decisive three weeks of the election campaign.

Because Armin Laschet is under pressure.

Laschet takes Merz into the team - his statement a few weeks ago reveals the wild CDU turnaround

In addition to Merz, part of the “future team” are: Digital State Minister Dorothee Bär (CSU), terrorism expert Peter Neumann and Schleswig-Holstein’s Education Minister Karin Prien, Saxony’s minister of education Barbara Klepsch, CDU vice-president Silvia Breher, the deputy union leader Andreas Jung and the Bundestag candidate and music manager Joe Chialo. They should help to get the Union and its ailing candidates out of their polls low.

“There won't be a team or a squad around him. Rather, there will only be individual appearances with individual MPs, applicants and individual ministers or prime ministers on individual topics, ”said Friedrich Merz in August, according to

Tagesspiegel

. Is the turning point an indication of a candidate for chancellor standing with his back to the wall? Or does the statement merely show the tug-of-war within the Union over the right strategy? In the Union itself, according to the dpa, it was emphasized that this was not a shadow cabinet. Laschet had also announced several times that he wanted to rely on high-profile politicians linked to issues in the final spurt before the federal election.

Laschet himself made it clear at the presentation of his “future team” that it was “important that the CDU is visible as a team.” Now it is about content. In his “future team” he wants to connect the different wings of the Union - Christian-social, liberal and conservative. There were also taunts against the Greens, so the focus was on “relieving instead of burdening” and “turbo” instead of “veto rights”. With the “future team” to the Federal Chancellery? The fact that Laschet relies on teamwork instead of lone fighters shows at least that the pressure has apparently increased even further in view of the poor personal poll numbers within the party. If the status of the current surveys remains, it should be difficult for Laschet to hijack the Chancellery, even with the new team.

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shortly before that, the CDU politician had presented a climate protection team - but the answer from a young climate expert at "Markus Lanz" had already revealed Laschet's climate plan.

List of rubric lists: © Christoph Soeder

Source: merkur

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