CDU-chair and K-question: soft Laschet?

Multiple sets of the candidate for the CDU presidency and possible candidate for Chancellor sit up and take notice. Norbert Röttgen designated a CSU-candidate for Chancellor, so Markus Söder, if he gains 2021 the election as a "huge success" for the CDU and the CSU. That was a top against Armin Laschet, who had insisted on a candidacy for Chancellor of the CDU. Markus Söder referred to a definition on a black-green Alliance as a mistake, what is to be understood as a critique of Friedrich Merz, who had spoken in the sense of a such a coalition. Laschet was, in turn, went in to his claim to be a Chancellor candidacy as a future CDU-Chairman, so far, that he interpreted Söders evasive Statements about a CSU Chancellor so that the matter had been settled for the CSU, apparently, a long time ago.

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Norbert Röttgen, the Anti-Laschet; Markus Söder, the Anti-Merz; Armin Laschet, the Anti-Söder: there is one Name missing in this row, the Jens Spahns that occurred originally with Laschet as a Duo, but similar scores to be above it all floats like Angela Merkel. That could change before the party Congress in December. The front positions but also without him, that until December, an interesting competition is looming – not just the presidency, but also in the K-question. Because the one is not thinkable without the other.

click here to read the Interview with Norbert Röttgen.

Whether Röttgen and his CSU-friendly foray a Favor has been done? To apply for the CDU chairmanship and to bring to some extent the waiver of the Chancellor candidacy to the game, is not just an expression of our own strength and Conviction. The CDU delegates will want to choose in December probably more of a Chairman, which is on course with full self-confidence on the Chancellor's office. This expectation, however, can also meet Laschet and Merz, as much as both of you like to use with your Utterances, only limited surveys (and Röttgen) in the K-question is far behind Markus Söder.

This can still change, but probably only if one of them is, in fact, become Chairman. Then begins the period of the profile in the office and shows whether the new Chairman to succeed, what is Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer remained failed to emerge from the shadow of Angela Merkel, the floats currently on a European cloud, and the CDU has helped the Corona-crisis in the Federation and the länder to a high-altitude flight. Some of the CDU national politician can believe his luck, therefore, hardly. The Federal party is once again the driving force.

may the promise of the regional associations in Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse hoped unprocessed tailwind, even if it takes another three-quarters of a year, until there is selected. It is the Tests consist of the new CDU-Chairman, he wants to win half a year later, elections to the Bundestag.

The first Tests for the new Chairman: the March elections

is Selected in the three countries, but only in March. The Chancellor candidacy may still be up then, until after the first of three state elections of the super election year of waiting (it is in Thuringia in April and Saxony-Anhalt in June) to follow? All three candidates have given their poll values in the K-question not in a hurry. After the Congress, in December, you could win time by a joint program developed with the CSU and the staff decision is postponed.