North Rhine-Westphalia’s Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU) has highlighted the claim of his party to ask the Chancellor candidate of the Union for the Bundestag election in 2021. The “world on Sunday”, said the CDU-politician: “Many in the Union share the view that the successes under Konrad Adenauer, Helmut Kohl and Angela Merkel are also due to the combination of chancellorship and party Chairman.” On the question of whether he shared this view, said Laschet: “I have always seen and said.” Laschet not assumes that CSU leader Markus Söder as a Chancellor candidate. “He has made itself clear. I take that very seriously.“
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) no longer occurs after four terms in office. The CDU must Annegret at a party conference at the end of the year, first of all, the succession of party leader, Kramp-Karrenbauer determine. For the party presidency, a politician, Friedrich Merz, and the foreign politician Norbert Röttgen apply in addition to Laschet of the economy. Then will be discussed with the CSU, the Chancellor candidacy.
Rising poll numbers for Söder
Söder had declared in late may that he expected for January, with a decision in the K-question. The CSU chief had stressed several times that his place in Bayern is. His poll numbers have risen in the Corona-crisis, but strong, he is far ahead of other potential candidates for Chancellor.
The CSU has only placed twice, Chancellor candidate of the Union. Franz Josef Strauss (1980) and Edmund Stoiber (2002) did not make it to the Chancellery.
