“We have to send this traffic light to the desert in 2025,” says Söder
Union hand in hand: NRW Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU) and his colleague Markus Söder (CSU)
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As a Union, CSU boss Markus Söder and North Rhine-Westphalia Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU) stand side by side. The conclusion of the Bavarian state election campaign was not just about Söder’s re-election. Above all, it was dealt out sharply against the federal government.
ZAt the end of the Bavarian state election campaign, CSU boss Markus Söder and North Rhine-Westphalia Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU) sharply criticized the Berlin traffic light government. “We have to send this traffic light into the desert in 2025,” said Söder on Friday evening at the CSU’s official final rally in Munich. But the state elections are also an important turning point. It is important that there is “continuity and stability”. Wüst also demanded: “This rusty government traffic light belongs in the recycling yard.”
CDU leader Friedrich Merz was not in Munich himself, he only addressed the several hundred guests in the Löwenbräukeller in a video message. He called for the state election to also be a vote on the federal government’s policies. Anyone standing in the voting booth on Sunday should “think again about the traffic lights in Berlin,” said Merz in his video message.
FDP leader Christian Lindner immediately countered the criticism of the coalition in Berlin at an FDP event: “Ladies and gentlemen, don’t forget that there are traffic lights. This is largely the responsibility of Markus Söder and the CSU. “Markus Söder stopped supporting Armin Laschet, the Union’s candidate for chancellor, after the last federal election and thus took the Jamaica option off the table,” said the Federal Finance Minister on Friday at the end of the Bavarian Liberals’ election campaign.
Linder also accused Söder of not providing the public with a picture of the “future of this country” during the election campaign. “He virtually refused to talk about the situation in the country. He looked at Berlin and worked his way through the traffic lights,” emphasized Lindner. Söder did not campaign as an incumbent and statesman, but as an opposition federal politician.
According to surveys, the FDP in Bavaria must fear being eliminated from the state parliament again. Demoscopes have not rated it above values of three to four percent for months. In 2018 she also had to worry for a long time about getting back into the state parliament, but in the end she barely managed it with 5.1 percent.