Very good survey and cryptic statements - observers keep a candidacy for Chancellor Markus Söder possible. Now, Friedrich Merz, said.

Bavaria's Minister-President Markus Söder is traded by observers is currently considered promising candidates for the candidacy promise you. the Friedrich Merz , the is also hope on the Chancellery, not looks Söder, according to its own statement as competitors. Now Söder has once again to the speculation that it would pull him to the Federal policy, expressed (see Update from 5. June, 22.27 PM).

Update from the 5. June 2020, 22.27 PM: After the CDU-has made politicians Friedrich Merz it clear that he sees in Bavaria, Minister-President of Markus Söder not as a competitor in the race for the chancellorship, has said the CSU politician again, the speculation in connection with a candidacy for Chancellor. "The best way in Berlin to Bavaria," said Söder of the middle Bavarian newspaper and thus rejected the rumors, it would pull him to the Federal policy.

"is My place in the free state" , - said Söder. However, he added, they also need to be able to in Berlin a little, to achieve for Bayern something. To demand "only, or to write statements to the press, is not enough," he said.

the race for the Chancellery: Increases Markus Söder with a?

first message of 5. June 2020:

Berlin - For his handling of the Corona*the crisis has collected the Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder* many of the voters sympathy points. In surveys, he is the second most popular politician after Merkel and cuts under the Union's candidates for the Chancellor candidacy at best. Therefore, Söder is now regarded by observers and experts as a possible candidate for Chancellor.

the current contenders for the CDU presidency and, indirectly, for the Chancellor candidacy, Friedrich Merz* and Armin Laschet*, now uneasy? At least in the case of Merz this does not seem to be the case: "I don't see Markus Söder as a competitor to candidacy for Chancellor," said the corporate lawyer of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, and added: "I take his Statement seriously, that he wants to stay in Bayern."

Merz have a statement, Söders, is that in the next January over the Union's Chancellor candidate for the election of 2021 will be decided, as dash felt. "We have established in the Union, a clear order," said Merz. The CDU, select its own Chairman, and then the CDU and the CSU would decide who will be the joint Chancellor candidate will . Originally would have after the surprising resignation of CDU leader, Kramp-Karrenbauer* Annegret, a new CDU-Chairman shall be elected at a special party Congress in April. This was postponed due to the Coronavirus-spread* however, first of all, and then cancelled altogether.

Söder made with a view to the K-issue a cryptic statement

With views of the K-question and CDU party Congress in December, had said Söder also: " Who knows what happens until then is still everything. " in addition, he had added in a comment about German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU): "The crisis, whom the Germans in difficult times trust." In the face of Söders last updated registered strikingly positive survey results , were these statements all the more attentive.

Whether Söder goes may actually be in the race for the Chancellery, probably remains to be seen. But one is, apparently, definitely: The current Chancellor Angela Merkel pulls a fifth term in consideration . She stressed on Thursday evening in a television interview on ZDF and ARD, vehemently. "No, because I don't think I have said this often," said Merkel on the question of a renewed candidacy for Chancellor in the case of the ARD. And also in the ZDF you informed of this Option, a significant dissipation.

by the Way: Markus Söder received for his role in the Corona pandemic, only positive Feedback. With constructive criticism of his political Actions, an incident had to do at the end of may but nothing. Because Söder was sent a package, whose contents can only be seen as a provocation considered. The CSU-politician posted an image of the mailpiece associated with a significant warning on Twitter.

hatred and incitement to take: @c_drosten and @Karl_Lauterbach are not alone. Also, I received on 25.5. an envelope. Conspiracy theorists fuelling a dangerous climate. We must not allow that. The policy must show the attitude and the voice of reason to be. pic.twitter.com/ZMEGszUNnc

— Markus Söder (@Markus_Soeder) May 29, 2020

Also interesting: AfD-politician Katrin Ebner-Steiner on Friday with a photo, on which you see in a Corona Demo for outrage.

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Date Of Update: 05 June 2020, 17:34