Friedrich Merz swears the Union into the election campaign at the CSU party conference. And provides a clear direction for this.
Around a year before the federal election, Union Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz rejected discussions about future coalitions. “We are not running a coalition election campaign,” said Merz in his speech at the CSU party conference in Augsburg.
The CDU chairman called an alliance with today’s Greens impossible at the moment: “In my opinion, cooperation with these Greens as they exist today is inconceivable and not possible.” However, he avoided excluding Black and Green in the apodictic way that CSU boss Markus Söder and other top CSU politicians have been happy to do for months. In the meantime, Söder had also threatened a CSU veto against a coalition with the Greens.
No cooperation with the AfD
Merz added: “If only the Social Democrats remain, it won’t be any fun.” He particularly referred to the convictions of individual SPD top politicians in foreign and security policy, but also in economic and social policy. “It’s going to be damn difficult,” says the CDU leader.
That’s why the Union should concentrate on becoming as strong as possible in the federal election, he warned. The CDU and CSU fought to get the largest possible number of votes in the next federal election.
Merz categorically ruled out collaboration with the AfD. “We would be selling the soul of the Union if we worked with such people.” But what the Sahra Wagenknecht alliance wants also contradicts the Union’s convictions. “That’s socialism in Chanel,” mocked the CDU leader.
Source: Stern
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