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CDU chairman Norbert Röttgen has spoken out against the FDP government with a view to the upcoming federal election.

"The FDP is responsible for a historical failure in that it refused a new beginning and government responsibility after two large coalitions," said Röttgen of the "Augsburger Allgemeine".

"You can't rely on a party that sometimes feels like governing and then doesn't," said the foreign policy expert.

"These are insecure cantonists that I would not rely on."

"It may well be that the FDP has suddenly come up with the idea again that the meaning of politics could also be to shape, decide and govern," said Röttgen.

But voters would not forget the failure of the Jamaican coalition three years ago.

The NRW-FDP, on the other hand, has apparently not forgotten that its CDU coalition partner had achieved the worst CDU result in the state's history in the state elections in 2012 under the then top candidate Röttgen and that government responsibility had consequently shifted from black and yellow to red and green.

Laschet holds against it

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"Norbert Röttgen could see how the CDU and FDP jointly govern successfully in North Rhine-Westphalia," said FDP parliamentary group leader Christof Rasche of the dpa news agency in Düsseldorf.

"But it is a historical realization that state politics and assumption of responsibility do not interest him."

After the federal election in autumn 2017, the CDU / CSU, FDP and Greens went into exploratory talks, from which the FDP finally dropped out - in the famous words of party leader Christian Lindner: "It is better not to govern than to govern wrongly." FDP vice-president Wolfgang Kubicki recently told the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung” that a Jamaican alliance “as of today” was the only realistic option for his party.

The new CDU chairman will be elected at a digital party conference next weekend.

North Rhine-Westphalia Prime Minister Armin Laschet, the former Union parliamentary group leader Friedrich Merz and Röttgen are available for election.

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Laschet has attacked Röttgen, for whose criticism of the FDP.

He considers insulting the FDP to be a fundamental mistake, said Laschet at an appearance in front of members of the CDU parliamentary group in Baden-Württemberg on Wednesday.

"That drives everyone into the traffic light."

Laschet called Röttgen's statements dangerous.

He was trying to keep a line with FDP party leader Christian Lindner, said Laschet.

“The moment can come when we need it.” He prefers a Jamaica alliance with the Greens and the FDP to black and green.

“Because we also need a corrective.

That is why I would like a strong FDP for the Bundestag election. ”The CDU must have fundamental debates with the Greens on every single issue -“ especially at the federal level with many left-wing Greens ”.

That is much more difficult than a coalition with the FDP.

Laschet warned particularly urgently against a traffic light coalition of the Greens, SPD and FDP.

“That is the most difficult thing: a coalition of the SPD, which covers the social, the Greens, and the FDP, which then covers the economic part - what then does the CDU do about it?

That is the great danger for both Baden-Württemberg and the Federal Republic of Germany. "