Will the beer tent help the CSU in the election campaign?
At the Gillamoos morning pint, Markus Söder warned against the competition in particular.
A new "opponent" reacts irritably.
Abensberg / Munich - Real beer cellar speeches are a rarity in the Corona election campaign.
Markus Söder still had the opportunity on Monday at the traditional Gillamoos morning pint in Lower Bavaria.
During the appearance in front of party friends - in addition to private revelations on the subject of Corona - the CSU chief worked primarily on the competition: with detailed warnings about red-green-red as a consequence of the federal election - but also with sharp attacks on the address of the possible Coalition partner FDP.
Shortly before, the liberals had taken note of taunts by the CDU conservative Friedrich Merz - and for their part had set their sights on the Union.
Söder at the Gillamoos morning pint: CSU boss continues "left slide" campaign
Söder devoted large parts of his speech to criticism of the left.
"The Left Party is a party that is the successor to the SED," he said.
To this day, the left does not dare to seriously discuss this past and to distance itself from it.
Söder emphasized that individual members and parts of the left were monitored by the protection of the constitution.
"I already know why they want to abolish the protection of the constitution."
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Söder also repeated allegations to the SPD leaders Saskia Esken and Kevin Kühnert.
Bavaria's Prime Minister earned a laugh from his party friends for ridiculing the Green parliamentary leader Anton Hofreiter, who was also often mentioned in the same breath as the SPD politicians.
With him, a man could become Minister of Agriculture who relies on bureaucracy - and who "refuses to use the excellent Bavarian hairdressing trade".
Söder and Merz demand no traffic light from the FDP, Liberals counter: "Has the CDU actually already ..."
Somewhat more surprising was Söder's tone in the direction of the FDP. The party is moving "closer to the left every day," warned the CSU leader. He could “understand it in human terms”, teased Söder: “Ministerial posts, salaries and company cars are alluring,” he said. "And I personally appreciate Christian Lindner, but the good man now has to become a minister too." "Everyone who elects the FDP gets red-green in the end," warned Söder. He called a traffic light coalition a red-green alliance in the form of "a diluted left-hand soup".
CDU campaigner Friedrich Merz had previously asked the FDP in the ARD to reject a traffic light.
Prominent liberals countered on Twitter.
"Have Mr. Merz and the CDU actually already ruled out a coalition of the Union with the SPD and the Greens in the federal government?" Asked General Secretary Volker Wissing ironically with a view to a likewise conceivable Kenya coalition.
“Perhaps the CDU should articulate clearly with whom it would not form a coalition.
Haven't heard anything so far.
In any case, we do not need any CDU advisors, ”said Andrew Ullmann, member of the Bundestag.
Bundestag election: dispute over coalition variants - Söder remains cautious about his own positioning
There was no shortage of calls for clear rejection of various alliance variants in the election campaign - for example on Sunday evening in the ARD talk “Anne Will” or recently in the RTL chancellor candidate Triell.
So far, however, nothing has been ruled out.
For the parties, above all the SPD, the Greens and the FDP, the main concern is to maintain pressure for coalition negotiations after election day.
In Abensberg, Söder did not specifically comment on his preferences.
He spoke out in favor of an alliance with the FDP, but at the same time put into perspective that a black-yellow coalition was probably out of reach in view of the latest polls.
In terms of the CSU's own content, in addition to the maternal pension - which was viewed critically by the CDU - above all relief for the middle class in the shop window.
"Above all, we say: Relieve where it makes sense," he emphasized.
With the help of de minimis limits for bureaucracy and taxes, "the backbone of Bavaria and Germany" must be relieved with the middle class.
At the same time he pointed out that the CSU climate protection is also a concern: Ecology is not only a "green topic", but also a Christian one.
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