On the late Sunday evening and on Monday, 51 percent answered the question “Should Armin Laschet, in their opinion, resign as party leader of the CDU due to the results of the Bundestag election” with “definitely” or “rather”.
And voices within the party are also growing louder calling on the candidate for chancellor to draw personal conclusions.
the Rhineland-Palatinate CDU member of the state parliament and deputy parliamentary group leader in Mainz, Ellen Demuth, demanded on Twitter the resignation of the party leader. “I wish this tweet was redundant. I wish there was a self-awareness, “wrote Demuth on Monday on Twitter. “After the questionable PK, all I can say is: @ArminLaschet, you have lost. Please understand. Avoid further damage to the #CDU and step back. ”
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The 39-year-old was chief strategist at Norbert Röttgen when he, like Laschet and Friedrich Merz, applied for party leadership at the end of 2020. A spokesman for the CDU confirmed the authenticity of the tweet, but Demuth himself could not be reached at first.
Also from the point of view of former Hessian Justice Minister Christean Wagner Laschet should take responsibility for the unprecedented debacle in the federal election. “We need a fresh start, both in terms of personnel and content,” said the co-founder of the conservative Berlin circle in the Union of the “Heilbronner Voice”. “Laschet should take political responsibility for this crash and this catastrophe.”
“With Söder and Merz we would have achieved a better result”
The steep drop to the historic low of 24.1 percent was self-inflicted, said Wagner. What would have been missing was a clear strategy, clear content orientation and a clear personnel concept. “And we didn’t put the right candidate at the top,” said the former parliamentary group leader in the Hessian state parliament.
“After such a historical debacle, a renewal would also be appropriate in the presidium, in which one has tried in part, massively against the will of the base, to get Armin Laschet through as a candidate in order to prevent Markus Söder and Friedrich Merz.” For Wagner it is also clear: “With Söder and Merz we would have achieved a significantly better result.”
the end Baden-Wuerttemberg there is also criticism of Laschet. Union MPs there demanded personal consequences. “I have no imagination as to how Laschet wants to create the spirit of optimism necessary for a new government,” said for example the Nürtingen member of the Bundestag Michael Hennrich the “Stuttgarter Zeitung” and the “Stuttgarter Nachrichten” (Tuesday) on the Union candidate for chancellor. The processing of the election defeat must enjoy priority. “First we have to get our own shop in order. There is enough to do. ”The Member of Parliament from Ulm, Ronja Kemmer spoke out in the newspapers for “a real generation change”.
Union politicians also criticize that the Union’s insistence on a Jamaica coalition does not do justice to the dramatic situation. “We as a Union have to recognize that the SPD won the election and is allowed to start the first attempt at forming a government. There should be no parallel negotiations on Jamaica, but only when a traffic light does not come through, ”said the Marc Biadacz, MP from Böblingen. “Regardless of this, everyone in the Union must now ask themselves whether they stand in the way of the overdue renewal after this result.”
“We need a fresh start”
Demands for a resignation also come from of the Young Union of Saxony. “We need a real fresh start. This can only be successful if our federal chairman and candidate for chancellor, Armin Laschet, draws the conclusions from this loss of trust and resigns, ”said the State chairwoman Marcus Mündlein on Monday in Dresden.
The voters had sent a clear signal that they wanted a government without the Union. “As democrats we have to accept this and should use the time in the opposition to reorganize the content.”
The CDU Trier called for a federal party congress this year. “In view of the historically poor performance of the CDU in the last federal election, the federal executive board must question its composition and the most recent decisions,” said the district association in Trier on Monday. The local MPs were also negatively affected by these decisions.
The election posters with the image of the Union’s candidate for chancellor are being dismantled.
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The Union had suffered a debacle in the general election on Sunday, it fell from 32.9 percent to the historic low of 24.1 percent. After the heavy losses, Laschet announced a renewal of the CDU and admitted personal mistakes. The SPD improved from 20.5 percent to 25.7 percent and thus became the strongest force.
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