The parliamentary meeting of the Union begins without Seehofer – Schäuble speaks of "abyss" – live ticker to the conflict of the Union

Former Minister of the Interior Friedrich: Merkel deliberately accepts the resignation of Seehofer

Hans-Peter Friedrich, a member of the CSU, dares not predict the outcome of the conflict. asylum in the Union and the future of Horst Seehofer. It remains to be seen what will happen in the negotiations of the day with Chancellor Angela Merkel, said Friedrich on Deutschlandfunk. "And it will certainly depend on Horst Seehofer's consequences for himself." Friedrich launched a rigid attitude to Merkel. Seehofer had proposed several compromises, which the head of the CDU has always rejected. "And that naturally feeds the suspicion that she also consciously accepts that Horst Seehofer is resigning."

In the CSU it was very surprising that Merkel "sacrificed and lost in this way one of his most loyal allies" "Said Friedrich." The CSU management meeting in the night had been very dramatic, Seehofer was very determined to say "I can not go on like this." The CSU board did not want to accept that, there is now another delay. "But how can it end, I can not tell you now."

Seehofer resigned, the position of Federal Minister of the Interior and the President of the CSU party should be filled.Human decisions will not be discussed in this context. "Because we always hope together that there is a solution with the CDU, with Angela Merkel. "

Friedrich said that he could still imagine a compromise after all:" We do not reject the candidates from the countries with which we negotiate lead. "Until now, however, they exist only with Greece.All others are not ready for that.One is" now in a fluid situation, where the 39, we must react from hour to hour, so to speak "