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Federal election 2021 in the news update: Ziemiak warns of EU failure under Chancellor Scholz

2021-09-09T05:00:06.496Z


According to CDU General Secretary Ziemiak, the EU is threatened with financial collapse under an SPD-led Germany. And: CSU boss Söder hopes for the last turnaround in election polls. The developments in the news blog.


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CDU General Secretary Paul Ziemiak

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SPD far ahead in polls for state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

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A good two weeks before the state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the SPD has a clear lead over all other parties. 39 percent of those surveyed would vote for the Social Democrats, with Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig as the top candidate, according to an infratest-dimap survey published by the NDR, the Schweriner Volkszeitung and the Ostsee-Zeitung on Thursday. That would be around eight percentage points more than in the election five years ago.

The CDU - current coalition partner of the SPD - would only have 14 percent.

That corresponds to a minus of five percentage points compared to 2016. According to the survey, the AfD is the second strongest force in the electorate, at 17 percent, but would also lose four percentage points.

The left would come with three percentage points less than in 2016 to ten percent.

The FDP and the Greens would return to the Schwerin state parliament with seven and six percent respectively.

Both failed in 2016 at the five percent hurdle.

The SPD also sees the Allensbach poll now before Union

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According to a new poll by the Allensbach Institute, the SPD can count on first place in the federal election on September 26th. If elections were to take place now, the party with Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz would get 27 percent - an increase of three points compared to the previous poll in mid / end of August. This was the result of a representative study by the Allensbach Institute for Demoscopy on behalf of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The pollsters found 25 percent (-1) for the CDU / CSU. For the first time, the Union was no longer in the top spot at Allensbach.

According to this survey, the Greens are at 15.5 percent (-1.5).

The AfD sees Allensbach at 11 percent, the FDP at 9.5 percent and the left at 6 percent.

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 make it more difficult to weight the data collected.

Söder sees the weekend as the last chance for the Union to win the election

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opinion of CSU boss Markus Söder, the Union, which is in the historical polls, is running out of time for a change in mood before the general election.

"If there is still a chance to break the trend, it will be this weekend," Söder told the dpa news agency in Munich.

The CSU wanted to initiate the turnaround "a bit" with its party congress on Friday and Saturday in Nuremberg.

Without addressing it directly, Söder should also include the second triall of the top candidates from Union, SPD and Greens on Sunday at ARD and ZDF at the weekend of the decision.

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In election campaign mode: CSU boss Markus Söder

Photo: Daniel Karmann / dpa

Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet (CDU) is expected in Nuremberg at the party congress on Saturday.

For Söder it is clear that the Union can only win the election if they work together: »It is not a question of style now.

We all have to stick with each other. «Despite the poor poll results - the Union was recently between 19 and 25 percent nationwide, the CSU in Bavaria only 28 percent - Söder still sees the chance of an election victory and especially social issues in the foreground.

Union politicians want labor service for the long-term unemployed

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Politicians from the CDU, CSU and Free Voters want to oblige the long-term unemployed to do charitable work.

He had in mind such a regulation for people "who receive benefits from the state and are not ready to integrate into the labor market," said the CDU chairman of Saxony-Anhalt, Sven Schulze, of "Bild".

According to this, the unemployed could sweep leaves or collect rubbish.

The main aim is to »facilitate the reintegration of the long-term unemployed into working life,« said Berlin's CDU parliamentary group leader Burkard Dregger of »Bild«.

The chairman of the Free Voters, Hubert Aiwanger, welcomed the following: Many long-term unemployed could "return to a normal working life if they are specifically trained for the primary job market through charitable work".

The CSU interior expert Michael Kuffer hopes for the unemployed "appreciation and a personal relationship with our community". Hamburg's CDU boss Christoph Ploß referred according to "Bild" to a bill from Denmark, where the government with an obligation to work the integration of Wants to force immigrants.

Esken and Walter-Borjans are to remain Scholz's SPD chairmen, if they wish

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SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz wants Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans as party leaders for the future.

"I do not believe in rules according to which the chancellor must also be party chairman," he tells the editorial network Germany.

When asked whether Esken and Walter-Borjans should remain chairmen in the event of an election victory, the Finance Minister and Vice-Chancellor said: “I think so.

Our cohesion is very good - the cooperation works great. «This is also the case in the event of an election victory.

Maaßen goes over to the counterattack after criticism from CDU party colleague

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Ex-constitution protection chief Hans-Georg Maaßen (CDU) has called for her expulsion from Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet's so-called future team after criticism by Schleswig-Holstein's minister of education and party colleague Karin Prien of his candidacy for the Bundestag.

It is to be feared that Prien "will become an ongoing burden for all candidates," Maaßen told the "Bild".

He called on Laschet to "remove her from the competence team immediately."

This text is continuously updated.

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Source: spiegel

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