Toxic CSU party congress in Bavaria
Merz: Scholz is the “most disrespectful chancellor” of all time
10/29/2022, 1:40 p.m
Federal President Steinmeier will give a speech on the state of the nation on Friday. There are no important representatives from the federal government and the traffic light coalition at Bellevue Palace. At the CSU party conference in Augsburg, CDU leader Merz made it clear what he thought of it.
CDU leader Friedrich Merz has accused Chancellor Olaf Scholz of unprecedented disrespect in his political work. “We have never had a chancellor in Germany who treated his coalition partners with such disrespect, treated the institutions of our state with such disrespect, treated our neighbors with such disrespect, treated our international partners around the world with such disrespect.” , said Merz in his speech at the CSU party conference in Augsburg.
Merz accused the entire traffic light coalition of disrespecting Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. At Steinmeier’s Speech on major challenges of this time On Friday at Bellevue Palace, not one parliamentary group leader from the incumbent government was present, and not one member of the federal government felt it necessary to be present. “It’s a level of disrespect for our head of state that I didn’t think was possible.”
“Back to square one”
In his speech, Merz once again declared the Union to be the most important German party. After a year of opposition, they are back, he said, looking at the polls. “We’re back in first place in Germany.” In the RTL and ntv trend barometer, the CDU/CSU currently have 28 percent. That would be 4.1 percentage points more than in the federal elections last year. The Greens at 20 percent (14.8 percent), the SPD comes to 19 percent (25.7)
In order to be able to convert these poll values into election results, Merz and CSU boss Markus Söder the unity of the two sister parties. 2021 should not be repeated, said Merz. This was the answer to the dispute between the CDU and CSU: “Fighting parties are not elected.”
Söder also emphasized that if you stand together, you will be successful. And the CDU and CSU, Friedrich Merz and he, have a common idea and philosophy as to where Germany should go, said the CSU chairman. In Bavaria, a new state parliament will be elected in a year.