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Berlin (dpa) - In the internal Union power struggle for the candidacy for chancellor, there is criticism of the procedure between the CDU and CSU in the Union faction.
At the same time, before CDU boss Armin Laschet and CSU chairman Markus Söder appeared in front of the CDU and CSU members of the Bundestag on Tuesday afternoon, calls for a rapid agreement and unity grew louder.
At an online meeting of the so-called Group 17 in the Union parliamentary group - those members who moved into parliament after the 2017 federal election - there was criticism from participants on Tuesday morning that the presidia of the CDU and CSU were, according to information from the German Press Agency would not have agreed on a candidate in advance.
Both sides should have established a suitable procedure in the past few weeks.
The subject should now be discussed intensively in the group.
It remained open whether the parliamentarians should vote against the suitable candidate for chancellor.
At the meeting of the 35 MPs from the CDU and CSU, there was agreement that both candidates were suitable for the candidacy for chancellor, it said.
Surveys are an important point, but you shouldn't look at them alone.
Several CDU parliamentarians have also spoken out in favor of Söder as candidate for chancellor.
It is about a democratic competition, so it is good that there is a choice.
Regardless of who is nominated as a candidate, it is also crucial for a success in the Bundestag election that unity is achieved quickly.
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