Armin Laschets Union could not win the election.
The first calls for his resignation are loud, but he can still become chancellor.
All information about the CDU chancellor candidate here in the news ticker.
Armin Laschet is a candidate for CDU Chancellor in the 2021 federal election
.
The preliminary result is certain: Armin Laschets Union only made it to second place
.
It's the worst result ever
(see update from September 27,
7:02 a.m.).
The values union calls for the resignation of Laschet after the election defeat
(see update from September 27,
8:17 a.m.).
NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU) broke down when casting his vote
(see update from September 26, 12:57 p.m. and 2:11 p.m.).
This news ticker about Armin Laschet during the election is continuously updated.
Update from September 27th, 12:01 p.m.:
Armin Laschet has to fight back against severe headwinds after the election failure, and urges his party to unity.
As the
picture found
out, he warned in the presidium meeting of chaos in his party.
You shouldn't make any mistakes at the moment so that the others could say what a chaotic group the CDU is.
Then, according to
Bild
, Chancellor Merkel will also have to intervene and express herself clearly: “It will have to be done very quickly with the government.
Greens and FDP want to know very quickly what we want. "
According to the paper, Laschet was combative: the candidate for chancellor said that one had to “radiate a willingness” to work on forming a government.
Laschet: "Greens want us to prepare to participate in the government." And further: "Olaf Scholz is not the king."
According to information from the
world
, Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet and Union faction leader Ralph Brinkhaus clashed in the CDU presidium on Monday morning. Laschet apparently suggested that Brinkhaus should initially continue the group chairmanship "provisionally". Brinkhaus disagreed, he wants to be re-elected, initially for one year. "I would like to remain chairman of the parliamentary group," he said before the meeting, according to the
dpa
.
Update from September 27, 10:37 a.m
.: Armin Laschet surprisingly takes back his statement from election evening that the Union has a government mandate.
The picture found out from the presidium circles.
Apparently he even claims to never have said that like that.
“It is written in the media that we have formulated a government claim.
That is not the case. ”According to the picture, he claims that he only referred to the results and a new party system.
Armin Laschet (CDU) moves into the Bundestag via a state list
Update from September 27th, 9:16 am
: Armin Laschet moves into the new Bundestag via the state list of the NRW CDU. As the state returning officer announced on Monday in Düsseldorf, eleven members of the CDU's state list have been elected in the most populous state. Laschet was ranked number one on the list. In his hometown of Aachen, he had decided not to run as a direct candidate.
Should the Union not be involved in the next government, Laschet would still be in the Bundestag.
The candidate for chancellor could now try to take the post of parliamentary group leader of the Union and thus the role of the opposition leader.
On Sunday evening he ruled that out, but with reference to wanting to become chancellor.
But if it is not enough, it is questionable whether the Union will even elect the man to head the parliamentary group who is jointly responsible for the election failure.
Mighty headwind for Laschet: bitter defeat in North Rhine-Westphalia - demand for resignation of the values union
Update from September 27, 8:43 a.m.:
The CDU's performance in his home state North Rhine-Westphalia should also be bitter for NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet. Although his party there is 26 percent above the national average, it is still well behind the SPD, which has 29.1 percent.
That should be particularly bitter with the prospect of the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, which will take place on May 15, 2022. With the vote from the federal election, the current government of the CDU and FPD, which together come to 37.4 percent, would not be confirmed. If you see the federal election as a blueprint for the state election, the CDU could also be kicked out of the government here, the only options would be a GroKo or Jamaica. However, the traffic lights could also rule in North Rhine-Westphalia in the future. With currently 45.2 percent for the SPD and the Greens, the two parties could possibly form a government in twos. The CDU still has about seven months to change that.
Update from September 27th, 8:17 am:
Now the time has come: On the morning after the election defeat, Armin Laschet made the first clear resignation.
The Union of Values calls on him and CSU boss Markus Söder to “join in
withdraw with immediate effect ".
It goes on to say: "The board of directors and party leaders of the CDU and CSU must draw the conclusions from the election debacle in the federal elections on September 26, 2021."
The Values Union sees itself as a representative of the conservative current in the Union, but is not an official party division.
Bundestag election: Laschets Union loses significantly - despite defeat, chancellorship is still possible
Update from September 27, 7:02 a.m.:
With the
provisional final result, the defeat of the Union is now certain.
With 24.1 percent, the CDU / CSU only achieved second place behind the SPD.
It is the worst result the two parties have ever achieved in a federal election.
Chancellor candidate and CDU leader Armin Laschet now has to justify himself to his own people.
In addition to the content and the tiredness of Germany after 16 years of Union government, the defeat is apparently mainly due to the numerous campaign failures of Laschet.
But despite all this, the chancellorship could still go to the Union in the end.
If Laschet manages to get the FDP and the Greens on board and forge a Jamaica coalition against the SPD.
To do this, however, he will have to make numerous concessions to the two parties in order to convince them of a joint project.
Update from September 27, 00:30 a.m.:
After the Union defeat in the federal election in 2021, the pressure on Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet is growing.
A CDU top politician calls for “personal consequences” - and not just her.
Nevertheless, Kaschet can still become Federal Chancellor if he can persuade the Greens and the FDP to form a “Jamaica” coalition - instead of a “traffic light” with the SPD.
Bundestag election: Armin Laschet's CDU, along with the Left Party, was the big loser in the 2021 Bundestag election
Update from September 26th, 10.30 p.m.:
Armin Laschet is, along with the Left Party with the Union, the big loser in this federal election in 2021. As of late Sunday evening, the Union will end up between the historically poor 24.1 to 24.3 percent.
A setback that many CDU voters apparently also pass on to the candidate for chancellor.
According to a survey by Infratest Dimap for the
ARD
, only ten percent of the CDU voters said they had chosen the party because of candidate Laschet.
And: As the research group elections for the
ZDF
determined, even 56 percent of the CDU voters surveyed said that Laschet had harmed the party as a candidate.
Update from September 26th, 9:30 p.m
.: In an election study by the Forsa opinion research institute in cooperation with RTL / ntv, 53 percent of those surveyed blame Armin Laschet for the CDU / CSU's historic election failure because he was the wrong candidate for Chancellor.
62 percent think he should take responsibility and step down as CDU chairman.
Bundestag election results: the figures at a glance - first projections
Forecast / extrapolation |
time |
SPD |
CDU / CSU |
The green |
FDP |
AfD |
The left |
Others |
Infratest Dimap / ARD |
10.10 p.m. |
25.9 |
24.3 |
14.5 |
11.5 |
10.5 |
5.0 |
8.3 |
Research group / ZDF |
10:35 p.m. |
25.9 |
24.1 |
14.7 |
11.5 |
10.4 |
5.0 |
8.4 |
Update from September 26, 8:48 p.m.:
The Union is apparently not in the
mood
to celebrate after the election evening.
According to information from the NDR, the election party has been canceled, a DJ who has already been booked has not even started the planned DJing.
Bundestag election: Armin Laschet under pressure?
CDU politician calls for "consequences"
Update from September 26th, 7.30 p.m.:
Gitta Connemann, Deputy Head of the Union parliamentary group, has called for “personal consequences” after the defeat of the CDU / CSU in the 2021 federal election.
“This result cannot be glossed over,” Connemann told the news portal
t-online
: “We are on the way to losing the status of the People's Party.
Therefore there must be no further. ”The CDU politician calls for a“ renewal ”of the party:“ Everything has to be put to the test - structures, procedures, membership participation. ”
She did not mention the name Armin Laschet, but it is expected that the poor performance of the conservative sister parties will also be assigned to the role of CDU candidate for chancellor.
First reaction from Armin Laschet - CDU boss does not want to accept election failure
Update from September 26th, 6:55 pm
:
Armin Laschet makes a first statement on the result of the union in the federal election in 2021.
“This is a very special election evening today.
For the first time in 16 years, Angela Merkel has not run for Chancellor.
Those were 16 good years for Germany, and that's why I would like to thank Angela Merkel for her work, ”says the Rhinelander to the head of government who is standing next to him.
Laschet continues: “But it was clear to us: Without an official bonus, it would be an open and tough election campaign.
And that's how it turned out.
It's a neck and neck race.
This election evening is an exceptional situation.
We cannot be satisfied with the result.
And yet: the outcome of the election is not yet clear, it will be a long evening. "
We will do everything in our power to form a federal government under the leadership of the Union.
First statement CDU candidate for Chancellor Armin Laschet
It now takes a great deal of effort, continues the 60-year-old: “We have to overcome contradictions and hold Germany together.
In all probability, there will be a federal government with three partners for the first time.
One vote for the Union is one vote against a left-wing federal government.
That is why we will do everything in our power to form a federal government under the leadership of the Union.
Germany needs a future coalition that will modernize our country. "
CDU leader Laschet continues to address his party members: “We are responsible for future generations, for our children and grandchildren.
We need a coalition that makes our country faster and digitizes it.
We need a coalition that strengthens market economy solutions, a coalition that strengthens Europe. "
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CDU candidate for chancellor: Armin Laschet after the announcement of the first projections for the federal election in 2021.
© Michael Kappeler / dpa
Bundestag election forecast here!
CDU leader Armin Laschet threatens a major defeat
Update from September 26, 6:05 p.m.: The first forecast for the federal election in 2021 is there.
It is probably the historically worst result for the CDU and CSU union, which therefore comes to 24 percent.
The SPD, on the other hand, would be 26 percent.
This would mean losses of a significant 8.9 percent compared to the federal election.
“The losses are bitter.
You can't gloss over anything, ”explains General Secretary Paul Ziemiak on
ARD
.
Armin Laschet would be the loser in this election.
Armin Laschet: How is the CDU candidate for Chancellor performing in the 2021 federal election?
Update from September 26, 5.45 p.m.:
How does CDU Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet fare in the 2021 federal election?
The forecast and the first projections could be delayed in the evening.
Because: At the parallel elections in Berlin this Sunday there were long queues in front of numerous polling stations across the city.
Eligible voters sometimes had to queue up to the cross in the voting booth for more than an hour.
The Mitte district reported waiting times of more than two hours for polling station 100 at times.
The Federal Returning Officer now announced: "People who appeared before the end of the voting time (6 p.m.) and are in the voting room or in front of it for reasons of space are to be allowed to vote."
Update from September 26th, 5.30 p.m.:
Does Armin Laschet have to be prepared for internal accounting in the event of an election defeat?
It is known that the Bavarian sister CSU in particular is closely following the performance of the CDU candidate for chancellor.
A few minutes ago, party leader Markus Söder as well as Alexander Dobrindt and Dorothee Bär arrived at the Union's election party in Berlin's Konrad-Adenauer-Haus.
Armin Laschet: CDU candidate for chancellor arrives in Berlin with his wife Susanne from Aachen
Update from September 26th, 5 p.m.:
CDU chancellor candidate Armin Laschet has arrived in Berlin with his wife Susanne.
Photos show the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia as he enters the NRW representation in the federal capital.
At 6:01 p.m. there will be a first forecast for the federal election.
Laschet and his wife are also waiting eagerly for it.
Update from September 26, 4:55 p.m.:
Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) had supported her party
friend
Armin Laschet much more aggressively at the last minute of the election campaign - most recently this Saturday in Laschet's hometown Aachen.
There was not only encouragement for the two of them.
When Merkel asked the people at the election campaign event to cast their second vote for the CDU, “so that Armin Laschet can become Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany”,
loud whistles and boos were
heard, according to
RP Online
.
CDU candidate Armin Laschet new chancellor?
High voter turnout in the 2021 federal election
Update from September 26, 4:35 p.m.:
After the embarrassing faux pas by CDU Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet
, we can only
hope that the voters voted more attentively than the 60-year-old Rhinelander.
He had folded his ballot the wrong way and then held it up to the camera.
By the way: A very high voter turnout can be expected.
As the Federal Returning Officer announced via Twitter, 36.5 percent of those eligible to vote had cast their votes in the polling stations by 2 p.m.
It is estimated that more than 40 percent of the electorate voted by postal vote.
The turnout is likely to be well above that of 2017 (76.2 percent).
Armin Laschet: Federal Returning Officer comments on the CDU candidate for chancellor's failure
Update from September 26th, 3:47 p.m.:
After Armin Laschet's ballot mishap (see update from 2:11 p.m.), there is great turmoil on social media.
Does the breakdown cost Laschet the choice?
The Insa boss now expressed his opinion, as you can read in our live ticker for the 2021 federal election.
Update from September 26, 2:11 p.m.:
Are Armin Laschet threatened with consequences?
At noon at the polling station he had his ballot folded incorrectly so that everyone could
see
his crosses
(see update from September 26, 12:57 p.m.)
.
The Federal Returning Officer now explains on Twitter about the incident: “As expected, a nationally known politician elected his own party.
It cannot be seen as influencing voters. ”Normally, the electoral committee would have had to reject Laschet.
"If there is a misfolding, the electoral committee will distribute a new ballot paper.
If the ballot is still in the ballot box, it can no longer be sorted out and is valid, ”explains the Federal Returning Officer.
Armin Laschet: Breakdown at the polling station in the federal election
Update from September 26th, 12:57 pm:
Armin Laschet spoke of an "exciting day" after he had cast his vote
(see update from September 26th, 11:35 am)
.
But shortly before that, right there at the polling station, he had a major breakdown.
The electoral committee should even have rejected him, because Laschet had folded his ballot incorrectly - with the writing and the crosses facing outwards.
Bundestag election: Armin Laschet (CDU) casts his vote in his home town of Aachen - "important election"
Update from September 26, 11:35 a.m.:
Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet cast his vote in his home town of Aachen.
Shortly beforehand, he had himself photographed with a few voters, then joined the queue at the polling station.
When he came out, he said a few words into the camera on this “exciting day”.
“We all feel that it is a very important federal election.
A federal election that will decide Germany's direction in the next few years. ”He hopes that everyone will use their right to vote.
So that afterwards “Democrats can form a new government”.
Afterwards he went home again for a moment before Laschet went to Berlin later.
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Armin Laschet, federal chairman of the CDU, leading candidate of the Union and Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, after voting in the federal election.
© Rolf Vennenbernd / dpa
Bundestag election: Armin Laschet under pressure - Nothing is safe for the CDU boss in the event of bankruptcy
First report from September 26th:
Berlin - Armin Laschet was combative in the week before the general 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, how does Laschet's future look?
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 at the beginning of 2021, did not always have an easy time of 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 candidate for Chancellor burned itself into the memory of some voters who may not have had an opinion about the native Aachener before - 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.
"It is clear to me: my place will be 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
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