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Berlin (dpa) - The CDU presidium has voted for a candidate for chancellor by party leader Armin Laschet with a large majority.
This was confirmed by the Hessian Prime Minister Volker Bouffier after a meeting of the Presidium in Berlin.
But no decision was made - this was also not planned.
"It is clear that the CDU Presidium is behind its party chairman," said Saarland's Prime Minister Tobias Hans before the start of the meeting.
But that is not the question at all.
“We are discussing how we should approach the question of being a candidate for chancellor and how we should use the opportunities for our country in the 1920s.
It's about the country above all. "
On Sunday, both Laschet and Söder had declared their readiness to run as candidate for chancellor of the Union.
Söder made this dependent on the support of the CDU.
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Hans contradicted the impression that it was about a "showdown".
"The fact that there are two highly successful party leaders and prime ministers who are highly respected at the grassroots level and who are available to take the fate of the Federal Republic into their own hands is an opportunity."
The Presidium, the closest leadership circle around Laschet, met for the first time in months.
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