In the spring, Markus Söder was still hoping for a candidate for chancellor. Instead, the Union relied on Armin Laschet and experienced an election debacle. Söder doesn’t leave any good hair on the Union’s election campaign.
While CDU chancellor candidate Armin Laschet is still hoping for a possible Jamaica coalition and his political survival, CSU leader Markus Söder has already ruled out his party’s possible participation in a government. On Saturday, Bavaria’s Prime Minister stepped up again and criticized both the selection of the candidate for chancellor and the Union’s campaign strategy.
CSU boss Markus Söder attributes the bad result of the union in the federal election to the unpopular candidate for chancellor Armin Laschet (CDU) and a weak campaign strategy. “It’s just like that: In the end, the Germans wanted a different candidate for chancellor than the one put up by the CDU and CSU,” said Söder on Saturday at the national assembly of the Junge Union in Deggendorf. “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.”
Markus Söder relies on the traffic light coalition
The CSU had hoped for “substantive accents of renewal”. As an example, Söder cited the demand for tax relief for the middle class, company founders and top performers. “Just pointing out that nothing will change is not motivation, not stimulation.”
Without naming the CDU by name, Söder called on the sister party not to ingratiate themselves with the FDP and the Greens in Berlin in order to remain in the government. “It is the turn of the traffic light,” said the CSU boss. It is difficult to just sit in front of the door and wait for the traffic light to pull you in if you happen to be stuck in negotiations. “We are not just the permanent replacement candidate.”
Criticism also of the CSU
Söder called the election defeat a turning point for the CDU and CSU. “The Union has lost everywhere, broadly and deeply. (…) We are only fourth among the young voters.” The CSU also had a bad result, “a very bad one”. “It was also the case that our own staff did not pull as we expected.”
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