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Bundestag election: Armin Laschet under pressure - what does the CDU boss do if he loses the election?

2021-09-28T01:19:39.997Z


A lot is at stake for Armin Laschet in the federal election. It's about his political future. All information about the chancellor candidate in the news ticker.


A lot is at stake for Armin Laschet in the federal election.

It's about his political future.

All information about the chancellor candidate in the news ticker.

Berlin - Armin Laschet was combative in the week before the federal election.

The Union's candidate for chancellor said in the Konrad-Adenauer-Haus: “I am firmly convinced that the Union will win this election.” The Bundestag election will be “decided on election day” and not in polls.

In the meantime, what about Laschet's future?

What does the candidate for chancellor do on election day?

All information in this news ticker.

Federal election 2021: Armin Laschet or Olaf Scholz?

Polls see the SPD man ahead

Laschet will follow the voting decision together with his future team, which was presented shortly before the election. The Union hopes on election day

(all information in our news ticker)

to be able to reverse the trend from the last polls before the federal election. The SPD was seen by the polls in front of the CDU / CSU. And, especially bitter for Laschet: SPD opponent Olaf Scholz was by far the most popular candidate for chancellor until the election. Laschet apparently missed getting the masses excited.

To hold Laschet solely responsible for this fact would certainly be presumptuous.

The Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, who was only elected party leader of the CDU in early 2021, did not always have it easy in the election campaign.

Above all, the power struggle with CSU boss Markus Söder and the subsequent prick corpses from Munich were a disruptive factor that the 60-year-old would have gladly done without.

Because, on top of that, the entire Union repeatedly gave an unhappy picture and Laschet garnished this with his own mistakes, the CDU / CSU slipped further and further down in the polls.

Armin Laschet before the federal election in 2021: How a laugh changed the election campaign

July 17th changed this election campaign for the Bundestag election decisively. Laschet was a guest in Erftstadt on the edge of the flood disaster. During a speech by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Laschet could be seen in the background. The problem: the CDU chief laughed.

Now you can label the scenery as irrelevant, but it wasn't.

Paul Ziemiak, Secretary General of the CDU, recently had to admit to Markus Lanz that Laschet's appearance at least did not help the Union.

Because for Laschet it then went down in the polls.

The image of the laughing chancellor candidate burned itself into the memory of some voters who may not have had an opinion about the native Aachener - also because the political opponent was too happy to take up the ball.

Laschet himself says that he regrets the laugh most of all.

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Armin Laschet (CDU) laughs while Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (SPD) gives a press statement about the floods in North Rhine-Westphalia.

© Marius Becker / dpa

Bundestag election: Armin Laschet does not return to NRW - "my place is in Berlin"

Laschet has been Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia since 2017.

The former integration and family minister of the most populous federal state prevailed against the incumbent head of government Hannelore Kraft (SPD).

He currently governs together with the FDP, but does not want to return to Düsseldorf if the general election fails.

"For me it is clear: my place is in Berlin after the general election," said Laschet in spring 2021.

The decision on his successor is to be made after October.

"At the end of October we will elect a new state board, after which we will decide on our line-up for the state election," Laschet told

Focus magazine

.

There is not yet a specific date for his resignation.

Federal election 2021: Armin Laschet - the Union's candidate for chancellor in a brief profile

  • 1961: born on February 18th in Aachen

  • 1979: Joined the CDU

  • 1994 to 1998: Member of the German Bundestag

  • 1995 to 2005: Member of the European Parliament

  • 2005 to 2010: Integration and Family Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia

  • since 2017: Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia

  • since 2021: party chairman of the CDU

What if Armin Laschet loses in the federal election?

Uncertain future

What will happen politically for Laschet remains open. In the event of an election defeat, will the Union hold on to its newly elected party leader? His authority would probably be considerably weakened. Is he even resigning personally? How does the CSU react to the cut? One is still convinced that Söder would have been the better candidate. When it comes to coming to terms with the issue, the Christian Socials will probably hold back for the time being. In the event of a really bad result, Söder would leave the settlement with Laschet to the CDU himself.

There is definitely a lot at stake for Laschet on Sunday.

Perhaps he will go down in history as the man with whom the Union went into opposition after 16 years of CDU-led federal government.

Or is he doing it like 2017?

Even against Hannelore Kraft, some observers saw the Rhinelander as an outsider.

As such, based on the polls, he will also go into the Bundestag election.

What happens after that remains to be seen.

In this news ticker you will find all the important news about Armin Laschet and the federal election 2021. On

Merkur.de you

get all information about the federal election 2021. In addition, we provide you with all the important data and figures on our interactive map with all Results for constituencies and municipalities.

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Source: merkur

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