It seems that Friedrich Merz wants to take the CDU chairmanship for the third time.
According to one report, followers resort to verbal blows internally.
Berlin - A long-awaited, but drawn-out basic ballot, the most important candidates in the low sympathy - and now also an internal mud fight?
The CDU seems to be getting into trouble in the search for its new party leader: At an internal meeting on Wednesday, the camp of Friedrich Merz's supporters
, according to
a report by
Bild
, massively tightened the tone.
CDU: Braun could have presidency ambitions - "The last thing the CDU needs is an anesthetic doctor"
The reason for this are reports about a possible new presidential candidate, Helge Braun.
The head of the Chancellery - and Merkel confidante - could possibly also pull into the struggle for the party chief.
"The last thing the CDU needs now is an anesthetist", "a member of the Merz camp" blasphemed at a preliminary meeting for the Union parliamentary group meeting on Wednesday, reports the tabloid.
Before his time as a professional politician, Braun worked as an anesthetist.
Braun's ambitions are "the last desperate contingent of the old establishment", quoted the
picture
further from the meeting - without naming a specific author of the
request to speak
.
In fact, the style fits the Merz team: In the past, the Sauerland native even described himself as a victim of a party “establishment”.
Merz was nevertheless Union parliamentary leader at the beginning of the millennium.
CDU boss from the Merkel camp?
Merz supporters find it absurd
For Braun there was more malice.
According to the report, a CDU MP from Lower Saxony described the alleged candidacy plans as "completely absurd" and "incomprehensible": "The head of the Chancellor's office as a new departure?"
However, it still seems unclear who can embody a new departure for the CDU.
In a current Forsa survey, only 29 percent of those questioned saw Union voters Merz as a suitable party leader, 19 percent said that possible competitor Norbert Röttgen had the necessary skills.
The situation was also quite unclear in a more neutral Civey survey for the news portal
t-online
.
Merz wanted 43 percent of those surveyed for Union supporters as chairman, Röttgen 22 percent.
Group vice Carsten Linnemann came to ten, the group chairman Ralph Brinkhaus to eight percent.
Health Minister Jens Spahn only ends up with two percent.
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)