Chancellor candidate Laschet: Who will tell him?

The election lost, a Jamaica coalition increasingly unlikely – but Union Chancellor candidate Laschet is still sticking to his goal – that is also due to his party.

Ellen Demuth is likely to be a woman who Armin Laschet will not soon forget. When the CDU boss and candidate for chancellor still believed the Union had a clear government mandate on the morning after the election, the CDU member of the state parliament in Rhineland-Palatinate tweeted to Armin Laschet: “Avoid further damage to the CDU and step You back. “

Humility was the first in the party to openly express what many thought: “He’s standing there and everyone thinks he has to step back now, but he just doesn’t do it and nobody says it.”

Nobody tells him. Though many would like to say it. But obviously nobody in the CDU wants to be the regicide.

Open invoices

Norbert Röttgen once started as a team with Demuth to become CDU boss. He has several bills open with Laschet – but openly demanding his resignation is not something he does. “Of course there was an acceptance problem with the candidate for chancellor, and the candidate for chancellor knows that too,” he says.

Röttgen only wants to answer the question honestly whether Laschet is still the right man, even after several inquiries in the ARD not. He prefers to do a pirouette to say something about personnel issues at the end. “We had a candidate for chancellor … in the election campaign … and then talks … and then it comes to personnel issues.”

Not on Laschet’s side

Jens Spahn winds in a very similar way. The health minister once started as a team with Laschet. That was quickly forgotten during the election campaign, on election evening Spahn was not on the side of the failed candidate.

The deputy CDU chief remains silent for a week after the election – only to then state: “Well, a faultless election campaign alone would have brought about 30 percent.” It was the first tip shot down on the candidate. Spahn continues: of a special party congress, of the next generation – and thus probably of himself. But he doesn’t want to be any clearer either. Not yet. “All other questions arise when the exploratory talks are over,” he says.

Clear message

Now the Greens and the FDP have initially decided in favor of the SPD, with the once more and once less clear indication that this does not automatically mean the end of Jamaica. Somebody else does that. The commitment of the FDP and the Greens to taking up traffic light exploratory talks had not yet faded in Berlin, when Markus Söder stepped in front of the microphones in Munich – with a clear message: “The decision has now been made differently. You just have to accept decisions at some point . That makes no sense if you talk about the world differently from what it is. ”

You could not keep the Union warm now and sit in front of the door until you are called back in, Söder made clear. That also has something to do with dignity, so the words of the CSU boss – while the CDU boss sounded different in Düsseldorf: “We are ready for talks.”

Was that it now with Laschet’s political career? As always, Söder is sisterly: “I can’t comment on the decisions of our sister party.” Söder doesn’t have that either, at least not directly. Söder has de facto ended Jamaica. And thus the end of Laschet’s career as good as sealed.