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K-Question of the Union: The Merz-Söder Pact and its loser

2023-01-09T17:13:43.431Z


K-Question of the Union: The Merz-Söder Pact and its loser Created: 09/01/2023, 18:00 By: Georg Anastasiadis Georg Anastasiadis comments on Markus Söder, Friedrich Merz and the K question in the Union. © Michael Kappeler/Imago/Sleep/fn What is Markus Söder planning? After the big double interview of the Münchner Merkur with Merz and Söder, this question drives many editorial writers. A comment


K-Question of the Union: The Merz-Söder Pact and its loser

Created: 09/01/2023, 18:00

By: Georg Anastasiadis

Georg Anastasiadis comments on Markus Söder, Friedrich Merz and the K question in the Union.

© Michael Kappeler/Imago/Sleep/fn

What is Markus Söder planning?

After the big double interview of the Münchner Merkur with Merz and Söder, this question drives many editorial writers.

A commentary by Georg Anastasiadis.

Markus Söder is a great persecuted innocence in the country.

His sentence that he "definitely no longer has any ambitions" for the chancellor candidacy had hardly been spoken when accusations hailed all over the country that the CSU boss was actually planning the exact opposite of what was said.

Therein lies an accusation - one cannot trust Söder - but also a compliment: the Bavarian regent is and remains a black giant of German politics.

You can only become Chancellor without him.

But what was the 56-year-old really up to when, in a double interview with Friedrich Merz for our newspaper, he already proclaimed the CDU leader the Union's natural candidate for chancellor?

Above all, you have to look at the loser of the Merz-Söder Pact: It is NRW Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst, a smart man in his mid-forties, favorite of the Merkel wing in the CDU, pioneer of black-green – and because of his young age for the next ten years more potential rival for Bayern.

From Söder's point of view, putting a damper on him and his ambitions cannot do any harm.

Especially because the recently de-greened CSU leader intends to win his Bavarian election in October in a sharp settlement with the Greens (courted by Wüst).

Söder's confession that he burns for the Free State fits in with his Bavaria-first state election campaign, but does not rule out that in the event of a convincing result he could also catch fire for Germany and the 2025 federal election.

Söder, who respects strength, wants to avoid a power struggle with Merz.

If, contrary to expectations, the 67-year-old CDU leader should give up, the innocence from Munich would certainly not take long to ask.

Source: merkur

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