Hardly has CSU boss Markus Söder (54) announced the alleged reconciliation with his still-CDU counterpart Armin Laschet (60) than the dispute between the sister parties of the Union reignited.
Ex-Union faction leader Friedrich Merz (65) goes on Söder and the CSU!
“The year 2021 marks a low point in our cooperation and our dealings with one another,” he wrote about the Union in his newsletter. The sister parties do not have to be “completely convinced of every decision”, Merz continued, but the way they were dealt with in the weeks leading up to the election was “stylistically, disrespectful and sometimes rowdy”.
RUMMS!
Meant: Söder, of course, who had torpedoed Laschet’s election campaign with his candidacy for the Union Chancellor candidate, his own CSU election program and regular taunts. Even at the beginning of the coalition soundings, Söder shot against Laschet and arbitrarily rejected a Jamaica alliance with the Greens and the FDP.
Merz continues: “We have a responsibility that goes beyond our parties and individual people and their personal interests in power. Anyone who does not understand this causes more destruction than a lost federal election can do on its own. “
The Union had crashed to 24.1 percent in the federal election, while the SPD became the strongest force. The work in the Union and between the CDU and CSU is now facing a fundamental new beginning, wrote Merz. “Hopefully everyone understands the scale of this challenge. In a severe defeat there can also be the chance of a good new beginning. “
Despite “reconciliation”, Söder Laschet blamed the historically poor election result.
“It’s just like that,” said Söder at the national assembly of the Junge Union in Deggendorf, “in the end the Germans wanted a different candidate for chancellor than the one put up by the CDU and CSU. Just as it played a role that we weren’t quite sure from the start which strategy we were actually pursuing in terms of content. ”
Söder even called the fact that the CSU was to blame for the anger in the Union as “attempted bashing”.