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Ois Guade, CSU
It won’t be a fancy party. The party-affiliated Hanns Seidel Foundation is unveiling Schenkelklopferbuch’s potential “75 party revelations” on his 75th birthday, and CSU chief Markus Söder is ready to give a live talk to the world.
Of course, you can look at it, but the crucial question for next year will certainly not be answered in this context: Will the CSU be given a candidate for Chancellor for his birthday? Will Söder be the top candidate of the Union parties in the 2021 federal elections?
The Social Christians have already tried to go to the Chancellery twice – Strauss 1980, Stoiber 2002 – and twice they have failed.
His place is in Bavaria, Söder emphasizes too often and too often these days. In interviews, Söder last said the phrase that, as prime minister and head of the CSU, you were “expelled”. He sometimes also refers to Edmund Stoiber, whose candidacy for Chancellor he, Söder, considered critically at the time.
And now? Let’s put it this way: Söder would probably (like) run for chancellor. After all, the chances of a CSU (black-green) chancery in 2021 are perhaps better than ever: there is a potential coalition partner (as opposed to 1980) and a government majority is likely (as opposed to 2002).
In contrast to Strauss and Stoiber, Söder does not radiate that he is so necessarily pushed into federal politics. Media: He would have to be called by the sister party CDU. If so, union formation would be more closed from the start than if Söder had to prevail before a CDU president beforehand. It’s always still exciting with CSU.
By the way, shortly after the party’s founding, America’s allies had unmasked the CSU’s recipe for success after spying on its meetings. One report claims that the CSU is “a party for all political gourmets”, that it cannot be “neither measured nor understood by normal party standards.” CSU follows a “quick fix policy”. According to the American journalist, the Bavarians “would show a benevolent understanding of this swing policy.”
So what would we be without CSU? My colleague Stefan Kuzmany, a staunch Bavarian and a staunch CSU non-voter, is also wondering that today. “CSU has something,” says Stefan. It is “impossible to escape from it in Bavaria: you are inside or outside, but always in relation to it. It is the fixed point of political consciousness.” Read your congratulatory letter here at SPIEGEL.de during the day.
Political mood test
In North Rhine-Westphalia, more than 14 million people must vote in local elections on Sunday. Elections are held in 24 independent cities, 31 districts and 396 municipalities. A total of 20,000 municipal mandates will be granted in the most populous federal state.
The elections are a political test of the state of mind in several respects: it is the first vote since the start of the crown pandemic; Apart from the Bavarian local elections in March, we really did not know what to expect epidemiologically.
Will criticism of the crown’s measures be felt in the electoral results? Or will government parties be supported at the federal and state level? Or does the crisis play a lesser role than the assumption?
Then the second humor test, which is part of the elections: NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet is of course not in the election, but the result of his CDU will rub off on him as well. “That could give him momentum in the fight for the party presidency and the chancellor candidate. Or it could turn into a mortgage,” writes my colleague Florian Gathmann.
In the last local elections, at that time the country was still ruled by Red-Green, the CDU was able to get 37.5 percent, followed by the SPD with 31.4 percent. The Greens achieved just under 12 percent, that’s low by today’s standards. You should probably win.
For the German government, the new composition is the most important indication that Vladimir Putin could be involved in the case, writes a great team of SPIEGEL editors in the history of German-Russian relations after Navalny, which is well worth it. read: “The more complex, the newer and more rare the chemical composition of the poison, the more likely it is that it can only be achieved with the help of the Russian state apparatus. The Kremlin denies having anything to do with the assassination attempt.
And then there is this detail that the German authorities reconstructed during their investigations. It shows the cold calculation and brutality of this crime. According to the reconstruction, the perpetrators’ goal was for Navalny to die aboard the plane he was sitting in when the seizures began. Only the pilot’s emergency landing and subsequent treatment with an antidote likely saved Navalny’s life.
Winner of the day …
… We are all together. We are facing a beautiful weekend in September with sun and, sometimes, up to 30 degrees Celsius.
