Circles: Schäuble against decision of the K question in parliamentary group

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Berlin (dpa) - Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) has opposed a decision in the parliamentary group in the discussion about the Union's candidacy for chancellor.

This would be a big mistake, said Schäuble, according to the participants on Sunday at the meeting of the head of the Union faction in Berlin.

He remembers the decision in the Union parliamentary group in favor of the then CSU leader Franz Josef Strauss in 1979 and the severe wounds this left.

A quick agreement between the parties would be good, Schäuble made clear at the same time.

After attempts to mediate on several levels in the search for a Union Chancellor candidate failed, the Union parliamentary group elected the then Bavarian Prime Minister Strauss as candidate for Chancellor - against Lower Saxony's CDU Prime Minister Ernst Albrecht.

There were strong supporters of Strauss's candidacy in the election campaign - as well as vehement opponents.

In the end, the Union lost the 1980 Bundestag election to the SPD Chancellor, Helmut Schmidt, who had been in office since 1974.

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