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The Union has achieved the worst result in its history. To gloss over bad results is nothing new among politicians. What the Union had laid out this time, however, was particularly outrageous.
Not all ballot papers have been evaluated yet, but one thing is certain: The Union achieved the worst result since the founding of the Federal Republic in this Bundestag election. Less than 25 percent of Germans have probably made their mark on the CDU or CSU. This is, and it has to be said so clearly, a debacle for the party, which in German politics is something like FC Bayern in German football.
But few people like to talk about their own failure and so leading Union politicians take refuge in sometimes absurd attempts to gloss over this election result. A lot has been said about “the red-red-green” model lately, CSU boss Markus Söder began when asked about the bad result of the union in the Berlin round. “And this model got a smack today and that’s also a smack for Olaf Scholz.” He preferred the model.
So so. You have to wear chutzpah first. There you get two federal elections in a row, the worst result in your own history. And then you stand in front of the TV cameras, create a model that has never existed at the federal level, only to then blame this model with an alleged punishment. One thing is clear: if the voters punished one party, it was the Union.
Union sees an election goal achieved
But nobody wants to say that there. Already shortly after 6 p.m. Alexander Dobrindt rose to the daring thesis that one had achieved the goal of “preventing a slide to the left in this country”. Phew Dobrindt’s CSU colleague Markus Blume also announced that this “declared electoral goal” had been achieved. The left may not even make it to the next Bundestag, for them literally every vote counts. Let someone explain the concrete influence of the Union on this state of affairs.
The Union sees itself as a people’s party. On election night, however, she makes herself smaller than she is. Instead of standing by your own failures and talking about what you could learn from them, in the blackest hour in party history you look for someone who is even worse off to step down. It is an indictment of the party that twice in the history of the republic has appointed a chancellor for 16 years in a row.
And anyway: prevent a left slide? For real? A look at Saxony is recommended. There, the right-wing national AfD has become the strongest force in the state. And by far, ahead of the Union and the SPD. The danger from the left seems rather manageable.
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