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 "consequences".
Munich / Berlin - power struggle with Markus Söder (CSU), photo laughter in the flood area, ballot faux pas - for CDU chancellor candidate Armin Laschet it was an election campaign full of bankruptcies, bad luck and mishaps.
In the federal election in 2021, the 60-year-old Rhinelander received the receipt - the Union achieved the worst result in its history.
As of Sunday evening, September 26th, 10:10 p.m., the conservative sisters CDU and CSU only got 24.3 percent of the vote.
A debacle!
When Laschet commented on the federal election in a first statement at 6:55 p.m., influential Union politicians came on stage.
Armin Laschet: Bitter result for CDU chancellor candidate and Union in the federal election in 2021
Above all, Chancellor Angela Merkel, Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn, the Hessian Prime Minister Volker Bouffier and the Saarland regional chief Tobias Hans (all CDU).
But one thing was missing: the Bavarian Prime Minister and CSU leader Markus Söder.
Because he didn't want to stand next to the loser?
A casual observation?
Hardly likely.
Teasing from Munich in the direction of Düsseldorf and Berlin had accompanied the election campaign.
Without the CSU result in Bavaria, the CDU is below 20 percent.
CSU boss Markus Söder
Now it's getting really exciting.
Does the Bavarian sister support the NRW Prime Minister?
Is she dropping him?
Söder spoke later, at 10:40 p.m., on
ARD
.
"Without the CSU result in Bavaria, the CDU is below 20 percent," said the 54-year-old Franconian in a less friendly way towards Laschet.
After all, he said: "We want to form a government now so that Armin Laschet becomes Chancellor." He avoided the question of whether he would have been the better candidate for Chancellor, but did not deny it.
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At this point in time, everything was suddenly possible for Laschet - from resignation to office of the Chancellor.
“He's the party leader.
He is our candidate for chancellor.
We as a party will speak to the other parties, ”said CDU top politician Norbert Röttgen on
ARD
and promised the ailing Laschet the mandate“ that we will get a convincing alliance with the Greens and Liberals ”.
How that should work, ergo a so-called “Jamaica” alliance, remained completely opaque on Sunday evening.
Also whether the CDU really believes in a federal government as only the second strongest force in Germany.
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 |
As of Sunday evening, September 26th, 11:30 p.m.
The election party was canceled without further ado, a DJ had to dismantle his turntable, CDU chancellor candidate Laschet left the Konrad-Adenauer-Haus completely bent, according to pictures.
The fact that he can still become Federal Chancellor has to do with the majority in the Bundestag.
Both the “Jamaica” alliance of the CDU / CSU, the Greens and the FDP would have a majority in the German parliament based on the seats for the parliamentary groups, as would a “traffic light” coalition made up of the SPD, the Greens and the FDP.
Armin Laschet: Despite defeat in the federal election, the Chancellery for CDU / CSU is still there
But can an election loser really become chancellor?
Does Laschet have to draw his own conclusions and even resign as CDU party leader?
At least Gitta Connemann, the deputy chief of the Union parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, demanded the same “personal consequences”.
“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 can be no further. "
The CDU candidate for the direct mandate in Görlitz, Saxony, became clearer.
“For me, the general secretary and the top candidate in the federal government are jointly responsible.
A realignment has to take place without the two of them, ”said Florian Oest of
ARD
.
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There are also devastating polls immediately after the election. In an election study by the opinion research institute Forsa in cooperation with
RTL / ntv
, 53 percent of those questioned blamed Armin Laschet for the CDU / CSU's historic election failure because he was the wrong candidate for chancellor. 62 percent even said he should take responsibility and step down as CDU chairman. According to a survey by Infratest Dimap for the
ARD
, however, only ten percent of the CDU voters said they had elected 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 a candidate for Chancellor Laschet had harmed their party in the federal election.
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"We will do everything in our power to form a federal government under the leadership of the Union," he said defiantly.
He didn't look really convinced himself, in the following "elephant round" of the top candidates on
ARD
and
ZDF he
looked downright thin-skinned at times.
At
the end of the day, the
first
commented meaningfully: "It is Laschet's only chance to stay at the top of the party - Chancellor or catastrophe."
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