Comment on the CSU party conference: Söder is playing a double game


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As of: October 12, 2024 1:59 p.m

The Union took a clearly conservative position at the CSU party conference. This is good for party competition. But Markus Söder’s clear no to black-green holds risks.

The CSU chairman has been working on the Greens for months. At the party conference he once again gave a clear “No to Black-Green!”

Markus Söder only relies on the conservative core voters. Ongoing Green Party bashing may be taking hold in rural Bavaria, but this will prevent the Union from winning a federal election. Strategically, it cannot afford to simply rule out possible government coalitions.

What does Söder do if there is not enough for a coalition with the SPD and the FDP is no longer in the Bundestag? Will he then stick to his categorical Green Party no? How do you explain that the Greens are in the devil’s league – but that Black and Green in North Rhine-Westphalia, Baden-Württemberg and Schleswig-Holstein have been working well together for years?

Elections are won in the middle

The Union cannot afford to give up centrist Christian voters or liberal Union voters from cities in the federal election. Federal elections are won in the middle. Friedrich Merz knows this, is wooing employees and is at least leaving one door open to the Greens.

Söder promises Merz his one hundred percent support. At the same time, however, with his clear no to the Greens, he is restricting the Greens’ power options. Söder is playing a double game. He promises full support and at the same time makes life difficult for Merz. Former CSU chairman Horst Seehofer once coined the term “dirty” for Söder’s behavior.

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