Chancellor Merz Faces Growing Pressure Amid Electoral Challenges
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Alexander Dobrindt, Hendrik Wüst, Markus Söder or Boris Rhein? The chancellor wobbles, the debate about a successor takes up speed. But so far the potential candidates in the Union are blocking themselves. What speaks for, what against them?
"Possible candidates all have a catch", Christoph Mestmacher, ARD Berlin, to the debate on the election of Chancellor Merz
Analysis. An unprecedented crisis is now looming over Europe's most important country. Everything indicates that the country's Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, will soon be forced to resign. He has disappointed the Germans. Some of it has to do with politics. But some of it has to do with his form.
"The CDU has exchanged a chancellor before," says columnist Jan Fleischhauer with a view to the crisis of the Union. "In this respect, the eye now rests on the Prime Minister. And that is then Mr. Wüst or Markus Söder, according to Fleischhauer.
The chancellor shakes. His party friends push rather than support him. After the election evenings in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, clear text is to be spoken. An overview.
The loss of authority of the head of government is progressing, a fall seems conceivable. Will the CDU chairman survive the weekend?
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