The CSU boss has an appearance in Berlin prepared for the evening of the election.
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Berlin It’s actually just a small organizational side note, but in the Union it makes many sit up and take notice: The Bavarian Prime Minister and CSU leader Markus Söder will not be in Munich on Sunday evening, when the first forecasts for the federal election are published, but in Berlin. The Handelsblatt learned this from party circles.
It was different in the previous general election. The then CSU boss Horst Seehofer celebrated the victory of the Union with CSU supporters in Munich in 2013 and explained the weak performance of the CSU in 2017, also from the Bavarian capital. The Union reached 32.9 percent at the time, and the CSU came to 38.8 percent in Bavaria.
According to the current polls in the election on Sunday, the CDU and CSU can only dream of such results. And the looming debacle is probably one reason why Söder – unlike Seehofer – is not spending the election evening in Munich, but in Berlin.
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