With its party congress, the CSU wants to break the downward trend before the federal election.
Söder's re-election will not even be the most exciting part of the program.
On Friday and Saturday (10/11 September) the CSU * will meet for the party conference in Nuremberg.
In view of the weak polls of the Union, there is a lot going on for the party ahead of the general election.
At the beginning, CSU boss Markus Söder * is to be re-elected.
This news ticker for the CSU party congress is continuously updated.
Nuremberg - In the eyes of CSU boss Markus Söder, a decisive weekend is coming up.
The federal election is getting closer, so far the Union has not been able to free itself from the polls.
"If there is still a chance to break the trend, it will be this weekend," said Söder of the dpa.
The trend reversal is to come.
The CSU party congress on Friday and Saturday and the second TV triad of the three chancellor candidates * on Sunday evening now offer opportunities to give the impetus to the outside world.
“Highly motivated CSU” at the party conference in Nuremberg: Slipping to the left is a much-cited fear
CSU General Secretary Markus Blume spoke of a “highly motivated CSU” in an ntv interview on Friday morning. "We want to decide this fight for the Chancellery for us," he added. Blume also repeated the warning against a "left slide", which is currently much quoted by the Union election campaigners. For the CDU and CSU it would actually be a terrible scenario: They would sit in a red-green-red alliance as well as in a traffic light coalition in the Bundestag opposition.
On Thursday, Blume caused a stir with a quote that once again raised doubts about Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet: "Of course we would be better off with Markus Söder," he told
Spiegel
.
At the same time, they want to present a "maximally closed" union.
Laschet is also expected in Nuremberg on Saturday, probably not a feel-good performance.
Up and down the country, the party quarrels at all levels and strangers to the CDU chairman.
It will be exciting to see how the 900 or so delegates react to his speech.
(Left slide or traffic light - you can find out what comes after election day in our politics newsletter.)
"Mobilization Party Conference" of the CSU: Can the party around Markus Söder break the trend?
CSU regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt called the upcoming event the "mobilization party conference". He also warned
against a left alliance
in the
Passauer Neue Presse
. The SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz is “an illusionist” and stands “for the mutualisation of debts and social security contributions in Europe”. Despite polls for the Union of sometimes less than 20 percent, the CSU politician reckons that the party congress will offer the opportunity to “break the trend”. Because the CSU wants to mobilize the conservative voters with its party congress and send out a signal of courage.
At the start of the two-day party conference on Friday (beginning at 3 p.m.), the regular election of CSU boss Söder is on the program.
The Bavarian Prime Minister has been party leader since the beginning of 2019 - he received 87.4 percent of the vote at the time.
Due to the turmoil about the bad starting position before the federal election *, this event point may be a marginal aspect - at least as long as the result does not get a slap in the face in view of the weak survey figures in Bavaria.
In any case, regardless of the lousy polls *, Söder's re-election on Friday afternoon is certain.
Video: CSU boss Söder promises Chancellor candidate Laschet support
Applications from the base at the CSU party congress on Friday and Saturday
In addition to an abundance of basic motions - for example to reject regulations for gender-sensitive language - the party congress also wants to vote on a key motion that is aimed in particular at the insecure conservative regular voters.
In it, the CSU warns of the consequences of left-wing governments with the SPD, the Greens and the Left or FDP if the Union does not become the strongest force in the new Bundestag.
(cibo / dpa / AFP) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
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Misery before the election divides CSU politicians: Laschet is to blame for some, wrong polls for others *