Bundestag within reach? Aiwanger does not trust polls - and digs at CSU voters

Despite the low in the polls, Hubert Aiwanger is hoping for the free voters to move into parliament in the federal election in 2021.

And not only that.

Munich - Hubert Aiwanger has big goals with the free voters in the federal election in 2021 (September 26th).

He no longer only wants to co-govern in Bavaria, but also to move into the German parliament with his party.

Hubert Aiwanger: Free voters before the federal election in 2021 in the polls low

And this despite the fact that all the polls speak against this scenario shortly before the general election. Aiwanger obviously does not want to give up hope. "I have never received so much approval before an election as this time," said the chairman of the Free Voters this Thursday (23 September) of the

: "The Bundestag entry is within reach." The opinion polls saw the Free Voters, who sit in the Bavarian government with Prime Minister Markus Söder's CSU, for a long time at the federal level with around three percent of the votes.

But: A survey by the YouGov institute also published this Thursday thinks Aiwanger's party is only two percent - well below the five percent hurdle that is required for entry into the German Bundestag.

However, Aiwanger pointed out that around half of the voters in Bavaria are still undecided.

"I expect that a fair share of it will end up with us," he said.

If the Free Voters in Bavaria were to achieve a double-digit result, it could be enough at the federal level to jump the five percent hurdle, said the 50-year-old from Lower Bavaria.

In the video: Possible coalitions after the federal election in 2021

And that's not all: Aiwanger called on CSU voters to give their second vote to the free voters.

The CSU bring their candidates into parliament with the first vote anyway, the second vote for the state list does not win with the Christian Socials, he said.

Therefore, a second vote for the CSU would run into the void.

Government partner Söder had said exactly the same thing several times.

However, from the CSU's point of view, according to which a second vote for the free voters would allegedly run nowhere.

Hubert Aiwanger: CSU voters should vote for the free voters in the federal election

Aiwangers not only envision parliamentary mandates, but also participation in a new federal government.

If the Free Voters came into parliament, he declared, a bourgeois coalition would be possible without the Greens.

"Otherwise the CSU will have to mess around with the Greens in Berlin for the next few years," said the Deputy Prime Minister of Bavaria.

The party leader had repeatedly caused a stir in the past few months.

Among other things, the Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs was the only member of the Söder cabinet who refused to be vaccinated against Corona.

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