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The CDU could have a new chairman this year. The plan: First the party members vote, then a party congress approves the basic vote. And there is already a favorite. A comment.
For the fourth time in three years, the CDU has to elect a leader. After the party establishment has screwed up three times (election of Kramp-Karrenbauers instead of Merz, election of Laschet instead of Merz, free choice of chancellor candidate Laschet instead of Söder), the so-called “modernizers” will not be duped a fourth time and take matters into your own hands. The CDU district delegate conference should, against the advice of party oracle Wolfgang Schäuble, initiate a member survey this Saturday – learning from the SPD means learning to win. With the duo Esken / Walter-Borjans, the comrades voted rather idiosyncratically, but in the end stumbled into the Chancellery if nothing went wrong in the last few meters.
New chance for Friedrich Merz?
And lo and behold: Again the favorite is Friedrich Merz. He encounters the familiar reservations in the Merkel wing (too old, too retro), but the CDU, which has withered into the 19 percent party, now knows that things can no longer be much worse under Merz than it is after Merkel. The party leadership always persuaded the base that it was to the right of society and could not win elections if it let its heart speak and made an avowed conservative boss. But the opposite happened: People were promoted to party chairman who, due to a lack of charisma and profile, neither reached their own base nor the voters.
The old warrior Roland Koch is now giving his party a completely different advice: The CDU members could only fight and win with a passionate heart if they offered their fellow citizens a candidate and, associated with it, a program behind which they themselves could finally get back with passion and conviction stand. One can confidently understand this as a recommendation for Merz.
Read the big Merkur interview with CSU rebel Peter Gauweiler here.
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