ARD summer interview
Söder currently sees no chance for the CSU to run for chancellor
CSU boss Markus Söder (CSU) speaks during the summer interview of the ARD “Report from Berlin” on the terrace of the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus. Photo: Fabian Sommer/dpa
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It has never been “enough for a Bavarian in the Chancellery”, as CSU boss Markus Söder puts it in the ARD summer interview. He doesn’t see that changing in the near future either.
CSU boss Markus Söder currently sees no chance of a chancellor candidacy in three years for himself and the CSU. In the ARD summer interview on Sunday, he referred to Friedrich Merz’s strong role: “He is the head of the CDU, he is the head of the opposition.” He and Merz worked “greatly together”, and Merz did a very good job as leader of the opposition, stressed Söder.
His task now is to work properly in Bavaria, said the Bavarian Prime Minister. A look at history also shows that a Bavarian has never made it into the chancellor’s office – and normally in the past everyone only had one chance.
Söder: “There are so many others”
“There are so many others. I know that Daniel Günther will certainly think about it, Hendrik Wüst and many others, »said Söder about the prime ministers of Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia. “There are such great people there – the CSU is no longer an option anyway.”
Before the federal elections last year, Söder had long been considered a promising candidate for chancellor by the CDU and CSU. After lengthy internal quarrels, the CSU chairman finally had to admit defeat to the then CDU leader and NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet – who then lost the race for the chancellorship.