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Düsseldorf (dpa) - As the first CDU local association in North Rhine-Westphalia, Düsseldorf-Lierenfeld has publicly spoken out in favor of Markus Söder (CSU) as the Union's candidate for chancellor.

"Söder has charisma," said the local association chairman Christian Rütz on Monday of the German press agency in Düsseldorf.

“The population trusts him to cope with the crisis,” said the lawyer, who is also a CDU councilor in the state capital.

Therefore, the vote of the board in the 30-member small CDU local association in the Düsseldorf working-class district Lierenfeld was unanimous for the Bavarian Prime Minister.

"As a local association at the grassroots in North Rhine-Westphalia, we want a top candidate who enjoys good approval ratings from the population through stringent action and who gives the Union a strong starting position in the federal elections," says a press release from the small party cell.

"That is why the Presidium should propose Markus Söder as a joint candidate for Chancellor of the CDU and CSU for Germany."

That is not a vote of no confidence against CDU party leader Armin Laschet, who is also applying for the candidacy for chancellor.

"On the contrary, Armin Laschet is needed as head of government here in North Rhine-Westphalia and is doing a good job here," emphasized the deputy Lierenfeld CDU chairman Ralf Backens.

However, Laschet's zigzag course in the fight against pandemics caused irritation, Rütz noted.

In contrast, Söder conveyed his change of course more cleverly.

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A representative survey published on Sunday by Infratest dimap for the WDR also showed little support for Laschet's ambitions for the Chancellery in his own federal state.

Accordingly, of almost 1200 eligible voters in North Rhine-Westphalia, 49 percent thought Söder was a good candidate for Chancellor - of Laschet, however, only 24 percent said that.

The CDU boss did even worse with the Union supporters questioned: Here Söder was even further ahead compared to Laschet with 68 to 20 percent.

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