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eonce, but once, the names of the undead of these regional bademblies of the German Christian Democrats still fall. Angela Merkel. Of course, as Friedrich Merz badured the participants in Bremen, penultimate stage of this small tour shows for the CDU presidents, it will work with him as leader of the party and Merkel as chancellor. "Of course it's okay!" Exclaims Merz, but does not justify his optimism by a personal discussion or even by a new acquired sympathy, but by the fact that "the country comes first for him and for Merkel" then the party " .
Merz has to say it. He continues to fight the suspicion that his election to the presidency of the party, a power struggle between the Chancellery and the House Konrad Adenauer, would be scheduled, because of only the old resentment. Again for the record, at least for the 1001 eligible voters at the Congress of Christian Democrats this Friday in Hamburg: Friedrich Merz does not want to expel Angela Merkel from the Chancellery, when he is elected president of the CDU. He just wants to do something different as a party leader, as did Merkel. And this, without a doubt, wants its competitors, Jens Spahn, Federal Minister of Health, and Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, General Secretary of the CDU, too.
The three countries – Merz, Spahn and Kramp-Karrenbauer – have been in the republic for two weeks to present themselves in the 16 national federations of Christian Democrats in their parties, in order to promote themselves as future leaders and practice for the grand finale on the Elbe. However, the three candidates will present perhaps the most decisive political dance of the Thursday Thursday in Bremen, the penultimate stage of this touristic tour. And he succeeds almost perfectly.
AKK does not praise Merkel with a word
The most important badet of this tour is to distance yourself from the person and course of the former holder, Angela Merkel, without getting too close to him or even personally attack the Chancellor. Draw a line without tearing the trenches inside the party. Enter new shores without demolishing the bridge pillars on the old ones. Exit from the end of the era of Merkel, that some parts of the Union considered "leaden" for the last time, without the pain of separation from the other part of the world. Union is still being felt, becoming too big. The ignorance of the presidents, the non-designation of their name seems to be the royal way for the three candidates.
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, for example, has an application speech at Bremer Überseestadt, which gives her every chance of success. She caresses, already very president, her party, her soul, especially those of the CDU Bremen, which must stand in the municipal elections next year; she announces with pbadion – and stands out from her potential predecessor – "new themes", a "new style" and a "new strength"; and she promises that in the future – unlike Merkel, but she does not say that – important issues should be "decided in the first place by the party". A eulogistic word for the outgoing president, for his potential predecessor, Kramp-Karrenbauer, did not bring Bremen.
This also applies to Jens Spahn. Instead, the stranger of the round makes a speech that many would have liked as Angela Merkel herself pronounced it. Spahn tries – a bit of wood still in the performance, but at least – a political vision. He presents to the public his idea of "Germany 2040" and thus stands out officially from Angela Merkel, who has explicitly avoided being a visionary. In terms of content, Spahn also makes requests, for example the complete abolition of solos, which can also be interpreted as a criticism of the Federal Chancellor. The opportunity to include the solidarity surcharge as a secondary note in the history books would have been rather during the Chancellor's 13 years.
Merz and the "we-do-this"
The request to abolish solos also raises later in the evening also Friedrich Merz, who has already ensured in his opening speech a sufficient distance between himself and his former opponent. From the beginning of his contribution, Merz draws something like a final balance sheet of the era of the party leader, Merkel. 32.9% in the federal elections, "the worst election result since 1949", minus 10% in Bavaria and Hesse, now "well below 30% in the polls"; "These are no longer the right answers" to citizens' questions, people's questions and concerns "are no longer allowed", "are no longer taken seriously". It's barely clearer.
Even Chancellor "we-do-it-that" takes Merz to Bremen. It offers the possibility, in the case of its choice, to want to consider "what we can do" in terms of integration. That partygoers, perhaps even convention delegates who have proven their mandate or office, continue to be considered a successful egg dance or perhaps even a "disgrace," could not be explored in Bream. The applause in the Hanseatic city was about the same for the three candidates.
The last opportunity to practice has the presidential candidates of the CDU this Friday in Berlin. Maybe this is the right place to exempt the chancellor from the undead role of these regional conferences.
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