Just over 24 percent, the CDU and CSU have never received so few votes nationwide.
Presidium member Norbert Röttgen even sees the status as a people's party at risk.
Berlin - When the polling stations closed, the Union and the SPD felt the same thing: the government mandate.
The difference between parties, however, is that the Social Democrats gained many votes, while the Christian Democrats lost massively.
CDU boss Armin Laschet spoke shortly after the first projections of an alliance with the Greens and the FDP, even if he now called it a “future coalition” instead of “Jamaica”: “That is why we will do everything we can to form a federal government under the leadership of the Union. "CSU boss Markus Söder stated:" We firmly believe in the idea of a Jamaica alliance. "
No government mandate can be derived from the result of the CDU and CSU, contradicted SPD General Secretary Lars Klingbeil on the morning after the election in the ARD “Morgenmagazin”.
The Union is the "big loser".
Does she see it that way too?
CDU / CSU after Bundestag election result: "Unsatisfactory"
"As far as the CSU result is concerned, these are of course numbers that cannot be satisfactory in absolute terms," said CSU General Secretary Markus Blume.
"We have a creed in the Union: first the country, then the party," said CDU General Secretary Paul Ziemiak, somewhat puzzling.
And Söder, whose CSU achieved the second worst result in its history?
"We don't like our result in Bavaria, on the contrary, it is not a satisfactory result," he said - but also put it into perspective: the CSU had landed over 30 percent in Bavaria and over five percent across Germany, nothing more was to be expected.
In addition, the Bavarian CSU result was "far" above the national average for the CDU.
His only swipe at Laschet on election night.
Union parliamentary group vice Linnemann: "Anyone who prettifies that doesn't have all the cups in the closet"
"The result is bitter, it goes up to the stomach", however, Union parliamentary group Vice Carsten Linnemann was
much more emotional
in an interview with
Focus Online
on the evening of the election.
"If you talk it up nicely, you don't have all the cups in the cupboard," he continued.
The mistakes made by the sister parties would have to be dealt with so that they do not repeat themselves.
CDU presidium member Norbert Röttgen also went tough with the Union.
“It can't stay the way it is now,” he said on Sunday evening in the ARD “Tagesthemen”.
"We need a much stronger anchoring in all parts of society again."
Röttgen on the Union election result: "If it stays that way, we are no longer a people's party"
The CDU is still a people's party.
"But if we don't pull each other out now, thematically, in addressing all sections of the population - young people, urban audiences, academic people and so on - then we won't stay that way." This task exists regardless of which one The role of the CDU can be found in the government or in the opposition.
SPD Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz wants a “traffic light coalition” (SPD-Greens-FDP).
On this Monday, the SPD will meet in the Presidium to discuss the next steps, Klingbeil said in the “Morgenmagazin”.
"We want to have a quick discussion now."
He is also looking forward to the course of the talks between the FDP and the Greens, especially the behavior of the Greens.
"I can hardly imagine that the Greens in particular want to stabilize an Armin Laschet, someone who has so clearly lost the election," said Klingbeil.
(frs with material from dpa and AFP)
