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Berlin (dpa) - In the struggle for the candidate for chancellor of the union parties, the eyes are on the common parliamentary group.
MEPs are meeting for their regular session this afternoon.
CSU boss Markus Söder insists that the support there for his opponent, CDU chairman Armin Laschet, is not as unanimous as on Monday in the CDU party committees and that he can still turn the picture in his favor.
For MPs it is about the “gain or loss of the constituency”, said the Bavarian Prime Minister of the online program “Bild live”.
If you look at the current survey data, you can see that in the past, safe black constituencies were “now green in the south, red in the west and blue in the east”.
Söder was ready to take part in the parliamentary group meeting to talk about the K question.
"If you want, I'll be there with pleasure."
Laschet had previously announced that he had not planned to participate.
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The CDU chief warned the Union not to allow itself to be divided.
«A good, fair togetherness is key right now.
I wanted unity, ”said the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister, according to information from the German Press Agency, on Monday evening at a meeting of the influential state group of CDU MPs from North Rhine-Westphalia.
According to participants, Laschet received great support for a candidacy there.
Several speakers had expressly welcomed the unanimous vote of the CDU top bodies for Laschet, it said.
The support in the national group is likely to be important for Laschet, also in view of the nervousness among members of the Bundestag because of the poor poll numbers for the Union and for him personally.
The 42 NRW MPs form the strongest state group among the total of 245 Union MPs.
Because another, growing group of Union MEPs is demanding that the parliamentary group participate in the decision.
70 MPs from both parties have already joined the request made in writing, as the news portal "The Pioneer" writes.
Most of them are likely to favor Laschet's rival Söder.
The influential deputy CDU chairman, Volker Bouffier, spoke out against it, as previously the Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble.
Another committee does not have to be concerned, he said "The Pioneer".
“We have two committees with everything you need.
Board members, executive committees, that's how it should stay. "
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It is unclear when the decision will be made.
Laschet urges the fastest possible speed.
After the broad support in the CDU presidium and board for his candidacy, he announced that he would speak to Söder on Monday.
Because on Sunday he had provided his claim to the candidacy with the note that this would apply if the CDU gave him broad support.
After that didn't work on Monday, Söder is waiting for his supporters to speak up louder - he is therefore in no hurry.
The CSU presidium gave him full support on Monday, after which he made it clear that there would be no decision on the same day, but only in the next few days.
Laschet's CDU general secretary Paul Ziemiak said in the ZDF “Heute Journal”: “It doesn't depend on a day, but it will be very quick.”
With a view to the support of the CDU leaders on Monday for Laschet and Söder's restriction on Sunday that the CDU should call him, he said that it would be decided “in the light of today's decision, including yesterday's words”.
He rejected Söder's reference to Laschet's weak poll numbers.
“Surveys always play a role, of course, but not the exclusive one.
It is also about other skills if you later want to lead a government and keep a party together.
And Armin Laschet brings these skills with him. "
CDU Vice Julia Klöckner warned the sister parties to unite.
"The CDU and CSU are only strongly in common if the question of the candidacy for chancellor is clarified together," said the Federal Minister of Agriculture to the newspapers of the Funke media group.
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