Headlines: CDU turns the page Merkel
By: Véronique Rigolet Follow
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The battle for the presidency of the CDU, the ruling Christian Democratic Union, opens this Friday with a digital party congress.
Three candidates are in the running, which an election will decide tomorrow Saturday.
"
It will be a man
", headlines the
Süddeutsche Zeitung
.
A title like a wink after the party has been led for eighteen years by women.
Angela Merkel of course, then more briefly by AKK, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, who had to throw in the towel after a series of electoral setbacks.
"
3 men therefore for an armchair
", the former minister and outsider Norbert Röttgen, Armin Laschet close to Merkel and Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia and finally, the very right-hander Friedrich Merz, determined to take his revenge "
after being narrowly beaten in 2018 by AKK
”.
"
The race is open and the forecasts difficult
", notes the
Süddeutsche Zeitung
, in particular, explains the daily "
because it will be the 1st digital congress of a party
" because of pandemic.
“
Instead of a room in front of a thousand delegates, the three candidates will have to deliver their candidacy speech in front of a camera in a Berlin studio
”.
"
It will probably take 2 rounds of voting to decide between the candidates
, adds the daily,
none of them being likely to exceed the 50% mark in the first round
".
The boss of the CDU will not necessarily be the future candidate for the Bundestag
The future party boss may not be the "
natural candidate
" for election to the Chancellery.
What has long been a tradition at the CDU, could this time not be respected in the opinion of a large part of the German press.
As the
Heilbronner Stimme
argues,
“
whoever
is appointed as the new CDU president, it is far from certain that he will also be the Union candidate for chancellery in the Bundestag elections in the autumn next
”.
The regional daily explains that "
two other aspirants have made their way for this post, even if they deny their ambitions: the leader of the CSU, Markus Söder and the Minister of Health Jens Spahn
".
The CDU will look into the nomination of its candidate for chancellery next March.
Joe Biden presents $ 1.9 trillion stimulus package
"
The American bailout
" as Joe Biden called it is making headlines throughout the American press.
"
An emergency aid plan of nearly $ 2 trillion
, headlines the
New York Times,
to fight the virus and the slowing economy
."
The New York daily points out that "
the plan includes more than $ 400 billion to directly fight the pandemic and a new aid check of $ 1,400 per person
."
"
Biden's rescue plan comes at a critical time for the Nation,
" notes the
Wall Street Journal,
which cites the thousands of deaths daily due to the pandemic, and unemployment benefit claims which are reaching a record level, "
nearly a million people applied for an allowance last week,
”writes the daily.
It remains to be seen whether Joe Biden will be able to defuse the opposition of the Republicans to pass such an expensive plan in Congress.
"
This plan will be the first test of his promise to unite a divided Congress
," said the
Washington Post.
The "Tsar of Asia" at the White House
His name is Kurt Campbell and he was the State Department's principal diplomat for Asia under Obama, and the Asian press is igniting the idea that Joe Biden will soon announce his appointment as "
Asia coordinator on the Council." national security
”.
"
The return of the Tsar from Asia is the best thing that has happened to Australia since Biden triumphed over Trump,
" enthuses
The Australian
, while the
Japan Times
expresses its great satisfaction - recalling that under Obama, Campbell had been the promoter of the famous "
American pivot to Asia
", a policy of rebalancing American resources to focus on the Asia-Pacific region, especially in the face of the rise of Chinese power and North Korean threats.
Campbell's upcoming appointment therefore has something to "
reassure Tokyo and the American allies in Asia,
" says the
Japan Times
.
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