Status: 11.09.2021 8:50 a.m.
Chancellor candidate Laschet has a difficult position in the CSU. Today he can advertise himself again at the party congress in Nuremberg. CSU boss Söder swore the delegates to the final sprint with a declaration of war on “left” parties.
CDU boss Armin Laschet wants to take a first step out of the polls for the Union at the party congress of the sister party CSU. CSU boss Markus Söder promised the joint chancellor candidate of the CDU and CSU a warm and cordial welcome in Nuremberg. Previously, parts of the CSU had again expressed skepticism about the candidacy of the Rhinelander in view of the weak survey results for the Union.
Yesterday, Söder gave a speech in which he attacked SPD candidate Olaf Scholz, warned of a left slide in the federal election in a good two weeks and of anti-democratic tendencies in circles of the lateral thinker scene. Söder demonstratively backed Laschet, with whom he had once fought for the Union’s candidacy for chancellor. “We are 100 percent behind our joint candidate for Chancellor and want to see Armin Laschet in the Chancellery,” said Söder.
Markus Söder confirmed as chairman at the CSU party conference
Kirsten Girschick, ARD Berlin, daily news 8:00 p.m., 10.9.2021
Also CSU in the survey low
The CSU under Söder is also currently in the polls and is only 28 percent in Bavaria. The numbers are not sufficient for the CSU and for the Union, said Söder. He called to the SPD and the Greens not to be too sure of victory. “We’ll catch you on the last few meters,” he said.
Söder was confirmed in his office as party chairman for another two years by the delegates with 87.6 percent of the vote. He landed just above the result of 87.4 percent in his first election at the beginning of 2019, but fell short of the result when he was re-elected in October 2019 – at that time it was 91.3 percent.
With the demonstrative commitment to Laschet, Söder responded to irritations about CSU statements the day before. CSU general secretary Markus Blume had told the “Spiegel” with a view to the polls: “Of course we would be better off with Markus Söder.” Blume later regretted the irritation and said his statements were related to Bavaria and the CSU.