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Election clap: CDU is attacking Söder - and the majority of the citizens agree

2021-10-12T11:44:46.627Z


Markus Söder teased Armin Laschet during the election campaign. Colleagues from the Union now make the CSU boss jointly responsible for the poor results in the federal elections.


Markus Söder teased Armin Laschet during the election campaign.

Colleagues from the Union now make the CSU boss jointly responsible for the poor results in the federal elections.

Berlin - The Union is trying to come to terms with the worst result in its history in federal elections.

Economy Minister Altmaier and Defense Minister Kramp-Karrenbauer renounced their mandate, Laschet released the party leadership.

The question of responsibility is now drawing circles as far as Bavaria: The Bavarian Prime Minister and CSU leader Markus Söder is jointly responsible for numerous Union colleagues.

The divided Union now wants to find more unity, there are increasing votes for a member survey.

Criticism of Markus Söder is getting louder: "The CSU lacked team spirit"

Lower Saxony's CDU boss Bernd Althusmann considers the CSU leadership to be partly responsible for the Union's poor election result. Althusmann told the

editorial network in Germany

that many a line had been crossed during the election campaign

. "The CSU lacked team spirit in the most difficult phase of the Union," said the politician from Lower Saxony. In particular, the K question within the Union did the rest and was a heavy burden in the election campaign. "From my point of view, the CDU has been deeply divided since the tight inner-party decisions," Althusmann continued.

Friedrich Merz also hands out against the CSU boss, even if he does not mention Markus Söder by name. After Armin Laschet and not Söder became candidate for chancellor, several CSU politicians criticized this. Söder himself had often poked at Laschet during the election campaign. Merz has now reckoned with this behavior: As in the weeks before the election, one simply does not deal with each other, that was "stylistically, disrespectful and sometimes rowdy". Other party colleagues see it similarly. Peter Neumann told the

Augsburger Allgemeine

Markus Söder had "undermined Laschet every other day".

Ole von Beust (CDU) commented: "In the final phase [Armin Laschet] could do what he wanted, it was always wrong." Politicians and the population seem to agree on this point: Around half of the citizens believe Markus Söder's behavior to Armin Laschet for "unfair".

This was the result of a poll by the polling institute Civey.

Votes for member surveys are increasing: "Need CDU boss with broad support"

As divided as the Union was during the election campaign, it is now urging unity. In order to achieve this, at least for the party chairmanship, more and more votes are being raised for a member survey. For example from the CSU parliamentary group leader in the Bavarian state parliament, Thomas Kreuzer. This advises the CDU to have a party chairman "who is supported by a large majority of the party". A 51-49 vote would not help. From his point of view, the personnel realignment should have a great deal of acceptance both in the party and in the population. He wanted a "strong participation of the grassroots in all content-related and personnel decisions". Christian Hirte, the head of the Thuringian CDU, also believes that the party leadership must "get into talks with the grassroots as soon as possible," as the German press agency reported on Monday.

Bernd Althusmann expects a specific schedule "for a new start in terms of personnel" after the talks between the CDU's top bodies on Monday. He too gave a clear signal to want to involve the members more. Laschet had previously expressed the wish to "moderate" his federal presidency. Althusmann sees this skeptically: "That's why I believe that there will be a competition decision that must then be decided." The federal party congress must then feel called to follow the members, he said in the

ARD morning magazine

on Monday.

Possible applicants for the party leadership are ex-parliamentary group leader Friedrich Merz, health minister Jens Spahn, foreign politician Norbert Röttgen, economic politician Carsten Linnemann or parliamentary group leader Ralph Brinkhaus.

The CDU intends to redefine its leadership by the beginning of next year.

A special party conference should then re-elect the entire federal executive committee of the party, said General Secretary Paul Ziemiak after meetings of the CDU presidium and the federal executive committee on Monday.

Source: merkur

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