CDU and CSU: change of power without euphoria
A small bottle with a concentrated ginger juice had the CDU-Peautze put the delegates of the small party conference on the places. Such a « ginger shot » helps with stomach pain, nausea and other unpleasant things. The Union actually has every reason to celebrate. Yes, that did the CDU boss Friedrich Merz In a thoughtful speech at the small CDU party conference in Berlin: he does not want to cheer. The Union is chosen as the strongest force, Merz will probably be a chancellor next week.
But then the work starts. The designated successor of Olaf Scholz listed a number of serious problems: the War in Ukrainethe rage Donald Trumpsa weakening economy, a tangled administration and the open migration crisis. Solution of these problems is the goal where Merz wants to be measured. « The people in Germany rightly expect that we will change all of this. » Not an easy task. Merz himself spoke of the roaring pillars on which the country is located.
Merz wants to be a work chancellor
It is probably due to the size of the Herculean challenge that the next chancellor, who is not lacking in confidence, did not draw a rosy vision of the future. During the coalition negotiations, he asked himself « whether we trust ourselves. » It is probably also because the CDU and CSU the chunks cannot remove alone, but need the Social Democrats for this. The SPD had perforated the debt brake in the negotiations with the blacks, despite the lean 16.4 percent secured seven ministries in the election and mitigated the hardness promised by Merz in asylum policy.
Merz sees the intended government of the Union and SPD committed to success. There is no euphoria, but the time is not now, he said. « We form a work coalition. We know that we are responsible for being successful, » emphasized Merz. « Success in Germany, success in Europe and also success in the world. Success for the economy and community in one’s own country. And success in the self -assertion of the democratic center of our country. » Garden scissors instead of chainsaw as it is used in Argentina and the USA, as it is his chosen Minister of Education Karien Prien said.
In Munich, the pressure on changes is noticeable
Euphoria then did not want to be in the hall. Merz received applause for his speech, but she did not tore the delegates off the chairs. Often, parties can hardly run before the election victories, but the CDU is different this time. Sure, you have power again, which belongs to the Union’s DNA in the self -image of the party. But its priority in the party system is threatened, in the favor of voters the AfD is now on par.
In Munich Meanwhile, if you don’t even let any doubts that everything should be different from now on. For the CSU Alexander DobrindtDorothee Bär and Alois Rainer become minister in the new federal cabinet. « This is our team, we are firmly convinced of that, » said party leader Markus Söder After a meeting of the CSU board. « We can occupy departments that fit perfectly with the CSU. » It is about « law and order, high tech and home ». The CSU is to take over the Federal Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Research and Space and the Ministry of Agriculture. It is also important to generate advantages for Bavaria that had been disadvantaged for a long time.
Dobrindt is responsible for migration
Particular attention will be paid to Dobrindt in the future. As an interior minister, he is for that Mega topic migration responsible. « The numbers have to go down, » he says in the small courtyard of the Munich CSU headquarters. Therefore, people would have to be rejected at the German borders, so there must be deportations to Syria and Afghanistan, says Dobrindt and routinely pushes after: « This must be tackled as soon as possible. » Then the 54-year-old stalls and corrects himself: « I will tackle it as soon as possible. »
In any case, the CSU has registered exactly how its Austrian counterpart, the ÖVP, ended up under « also ran » in the weekends in Vienna at the weekend in Vienna, while the right -wing extremist celebrated FPÖ. With a view to this « impressive result, » said Söder, it is clear: « We have to deliver. » Dobrindt must deliver.
The top man of the CSU in Berlin had long considered whether he should take over the Ministry of the Interior – or would not have left the head of the state group. In the end, someone who never dared to jump into the federal cabinet himself was convinced that: the CSU honorary chairman Edmund Stoiber, once acted with Angela Merkel as a « super minister » before he stayed as party leader and prime minister in Munich.
Appeal by Alois Rainer as Minister of Agriculture caused a surprise
Only Rainer’s appeal caused a certain surprise – his name has so far not played a major role outside of the political Berlin. Rainer has been in the Bundestag since 2013, but so far his sister Gerda Hasselfeldt has been well known in the Bundestag as a former Minister of Building and then Health Minister and long-time chairman of the CSU state group. « Instead of the green, vegan Özdemir, the black butcher is now coming. Now there is liver cheese again instead of tofu-Teielei, » said Söder about Rainer.
Rainer is only Söder’s second choice for the ministerial post – he had always named Bavaria’s farmers’ president Günther Felßner as his desired candidate in the election campaign. However, this had given up against himself in March after protests by environmental and animal rights activists.
When asked by Söder’s call to the cabinet table, Rainer did not want to tell you exactly. It is known from Ulrich Lange. On Sunday evening, the party leader called the traffic politician from Nördlingen. He becomes State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Transport. And what does someone say who will soon have to deal with late trains, clogged motorways and dilapidated bridges? « I am a happy person today. »
