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CSU boss Markus Söder did not comment on Wednesday about the possible outcome of the Union power struggle for the candidacy for chancellor.

On the sidelines of a CSU parliamentary group meeting in the state parliament in Munich, he simply said: “In the end everything will be fine.” Söder rejected all kinds of speculations - everything else was “in the stars”.

Söder and the CDU chairman Armin Laschet had announced after a joint appearance in the Union parliamentary group in the Bundestag on Tuesday that they wanted to clarify the K question in the coming days.

When and how this should take place was initially open on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, SPD General Secretary Lars Klingbeil accuses the Union of being virtually paralyzed by the ongoing power struggle for the candidacy for chancellor.

"For months you knew that at some point you had to clarify the K question, now the trains in the Union are racing towards each other, that makes the party incapable of action," he said on the Phoenix broadcaster.

This is fatal in such a critical situation in which the country is currently.

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Klingbeil referred to the debate about the reform of the Infection Protection Act.

While in the SPD parliamentary group and probably also in the opposition parliamentary groups this was debated very constructively on Tuesday, the Union parliamentary group “turned around itself, dealt with itself and I consider that to be irresponsible in such a phase who we are right now ”.

According to Klingbeil, the Union would “do very well to take a break on the opposition bench after the general election”.

He also referred to the affair of mask business and commission payments, which led to the resignation of several Union members of the Bundestag.

Green parliamentary group leader Katrin Göring-Eckardt also sees the power struggle in the Union as a heavy burden on Corona policy.

The federal government is "hardly unable to act", she told the "Passauer Neue Presse".

“One of the main reasons for this is the internal turmoil in the Union and the fight for the election of candidates.

The Union is currently more focused on itself than fighting the pandemic. "

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