Armin Laschet is under tremendous pressure after the CDU debacle in the federal election.
A majority of Union supporters is calling for his resignation.
Berlin - At today's press conference (September 27), Armin Laschet indicated that he wanted to remain at the top of the CDU.
He saw his support in the party (only) secured for the coming coalition negotiations, the party chairman postponed the decision about the parliamentary group leader until tomorrow.
But there are already voices in the party calling on Laschet to resign.
And apparently Laschet also underestimates the mood at the grassroots level.
Around half of the Union supporters want his resignation.
This emerges from a survey that the opinion research institute Civey carried out on behalf of the newspapers of the Funke media group.
Accordingly, 51 percent of the participants answered the question "Should Armin Laschet, in their opinion, step down as party leader of the CDU due to the results of the Bundestag election" with "definitely" or "rather".
Cross-party, the value is even significantly higher.
70 percent of those surveyed think that Laschet should resign.
Eleven percent of the citizens are undecided on the question, 19 percent answered “more or less no” or “definitely not”.
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The majority of Union supporters calls for the resignation of CDU party leader Armin Laschet
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Armin Laschet under pressure after losing the election: the majority does not want him as Chancellor
The RTL / ntv trend barometer does not have any good news for Laschet either.
According to this, 44 percent of the Union's voters say that they would prefer to have Laschet as the next Federal Chancellor.
Across all parties, only eleven percent of Germans would prefer Laschet.
56 percent, on the other hand, see the SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz as the head of the federal government.
67 percent of German citizens are of the opinion that Laschet should take responsibility for the bad election result of the Union and step down as CDU chairman.
The Union had suffered a debacle in the general election on Sunday, it fell from 32.9 percent to the historic low of 24.1 percent.
Background to the polls
The opinion research institute Civey surveyed 5014 people on Sunday evening and on Monday (September 26/27) on behalf of the newspapers of the Funke media group.
The statistical uncertainty is given as 2.5 percent.
The market and opinion research institute forsa surveyed 1006 people on behalf of RTL Germany on Monday (September 27th).
The statistical margin of error is +/- three percentage points.
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