Kiel / Hamburg (dpa) - Schleswig-Holstein's Prime Minister Daniel Günther has criticized Friedrich Merz, who was defeated in the election as CDU chairman, for his demand to make him Federal Minister of Economics instead of Peter Altmaier.
One must have doubts that he is interested in being part of the party.
«We are not an agency for government offices.
Of course it doesn't work that way, ”said Günther on Monday on NDR Info.
If an election is lost, one cannot immediately make claims to a state office.
After the online election of the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Armin Laschet at the CDU party conference on Saturday, Merz offered himself as Minister of Economics in the current federal cabinet.