CDU boss Armin Laschet calls for a committee in which the sister parties CDU and CSU can clarify controversial personnel and factual issues. “We should create a format in which factual and personnel issues are clarified,” said Laschet of the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” (Thursday). He not only referred to the power struggle for the candidacy for chancellor this year. The Union had already had a very difficult political situation in 2018, “when a rupture of the CDU and CSU parliamentary group was openly in the room about the re-emerging upper limit debate.” “There was no such body here either.”
Regarding the candidacy for chancellor, in which he prevailed against CSU boss Markus Söder, Laschet said: “In the spring, the CDU federal executive board ultimately made the decision on the candidacy for chancellor and thus decided in favor of both sister parties – so that was an unusual procedure.” It has to work differently in the future. Laschet had already said on Saturday at the Junge Union’s Germany Day that one had to think about a body “which is suitable to do something in an orderly manner at the moments when the CDU and CSU are supposed to find a common candidate for chancellor”.
The CDU chairman made it clear in the interview that one Regulation for the candidate search of the Union not simple is, “because the CDU and CSU are two independent parties that meet on an equal footing, and therefore you cannot simply make a membership decision”. “Because then the CDU would always dominate the CSU.” And even a regulated procedure does not guarantee “that the decision made is ultimately accepted and supported by everyone”. Söder had repeatedly poked against Laschet during the election campaign.