The unfortunate candidate of the Christian-Democratic Union with Chancellery, under pressure, announced his progressive departure from the party management.
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The days of Armin Laschet in the presidency of the Christian-Democrat Union (CDU) are counted. Thursday, October 7 In the evening, the unfortunate candidate of the Conservatives at the Chancery appeared in front of the cameras to announce his progressive departure from the Directorate of Political Training. He took note of the debacle of the Christian-Democratic block (CDU and his Bavarian Wing CSU) in the elections of September 26, where he recorded the worst result of his history. “We need to analyze the results of the ballot and engage the reorganization of the CDU,” he said.
m. Laschet announced that he would meet the party officials at the beginning of the week, in order to quickly convene a congress. He stated that he would participate in the “moderation” of the internal debate on the future president of the training. This maneuver allows him to remain the interlocutor of his party throughout the phase of the coalition negotiations currently underway between the Social Democratic Party, the Greens and the Liberal Party FDP, who want to form a government.
If these discussions should not succeed, said Mr. Laschet, he would be willing to resume the talks to form a “Jamaican” coalition, so nicknamed because of the colors of the parties, who would be composed of the Conservatives (black) , ecologists (green) and Liberals of the FDP (yellow). This alliance always seems to him the best political option for Germany. “We do not close any door,” he said, while suggesting that he would no longer claim the position of Chancellor if such a coalition had to materialize.
Intestinal struggles
This is the second withdrawal act of Armin Leschet in a few days. One after the other, he abandons the seats that made him one of the most powerful policies in the country. The native of Aix-la-Chapelle has already organized its succession at the head of its Rhine-Nord-Westphalia fief, the most populous Land of Germany, where a new Christian-Democrat minister – Hendrik Wüst , 46 years old – was named at the beginning of the week. It is now the direction of the CDU that it seems apparently to give in in good order. Friday morning, during his last speech in the Bundesrat, the Upper House of Parliament, as the President of the Region, Armin Laschet announced that he would now only sit solely at the Bundestag.
For a few days, the pressure had become very strong around Armin Leschet. Many Democratic Christians accused him for not having accepted his defeat. When the Greens and the FDP announced on Wednesday morning that they did not want to pursue the negotiations with the CDU, the lean hopes that remained to see the Conservatives to form a government have suffered a new seonce. It was too much for Armin Leschet, who has been confrontation for ten days permanent attacks on the part of the Conservatives, especially from his Bavarian rival Markus Söder, who has been supplanting him for a long time in the polls.
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