The CSU Chairman and Bavarian Prime Minister, Markus Söder, has given the discussion about the candidacy of the Union for a new twist. So far, he had said, the decision will fall to the CDU party Congress, which takes place at the beginning of December in Stuttgart, Germany, at the beginning of the next year. Now Söder expressed that the Union would be superior to the CDU party Congress, which was the right appointment. “This must not necessarily be the January, which can also take place in March 2021,” he told the newspaper “Bild am Sonntag”. As he argued, a “long campaign in addition to an active Chancellor makes little sense”.

Eckart Lohse

head of the Parliamentary office in Berlin.

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Söder emphasized in the recent time, the proposal in the candidacy for Chancellor of the CDU. At the same time, he described it as important, that it was a “joint decision of the heart of the CDU and the CSU”. This two-tone corresponds to Söders Pitch for months. On the one hand, it allows the CDU to be given priority on the most important personnel decision for the next few years. On the other hand, he gives again and again the clock by its own requirements. Recently, the CDU had expressed-Chairman Annegret Kramp-karrenbauer, who don’t want to run in December again, the Belief, who the office of the CDU-Chairman, competitions, and the claim of the Chancellor candidacy. At least the candidates, Friedrich Merz, Armin Laschet and do that explicitly. The third candidate for the party presidency, Norbert Röttgen, had said that he could not imagine that the CDU-Chairman would candidate for Chancellor.

Söder wins

Söders advance, to decide in March of next year, would result in December to two difficult party days. First of all, the CDU would have to behave differently, as it accepts your outgoing Chairman, and the candidates for the presidency would have to do without it, in terms of candidacy for Chancellor to determine. A week later, would hold the CSU to its Congress, at which it is likely to also come to a determination. The CSU party Congress was originally scheduled in November, will be held. Söder decided that the CSU delegates Congress of the party met only after the CDU.