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The Berlin CDU has confirmed its support for CSU leader Markus Söder as candidate for Union chancellor. The members of the presidium and the district chairmen had confirmed the unanimous opinion of the presidium from last Monday, said state chief Kai Wegner on Sunday after the meeting of the presidium and the district chairmen. “Markus Söder also has broad support in the CDU Berlin base. With two abstentions, the members of the presidium and the district chairmen voted in favor of Markus Söder as the joint candidate for chancellor of the CDU and CSU, ”he emphasized.

"There is a great longing for Markus Söder," said Wegner on ARD. CDU leader Armin Laschet is still a good party leader. Wegner rejected a special meeting of the CDU federal executive committee in support of Laschet. "That is nonsense." If the two party leaders do not agree, the CDU / CSU parliamentary group would have to decide on Tuesday.

The power struggle between the Laschet and Markus Söder over the candidacy for chancellor in the Union, which has been deadlocked for days, continues.

The deadline for an agreement mentioned by both ends on Sunday.

For Sunday evening, Lower Saxony's CDU boss Bernd Althusmann called the members of his state board as well as the district and district chairmen together for online consultations from 8 p.m. according to dpa information.

It was expected that it would be a question of mood as to whether the base on the question of the candidate for chancellor would tend towards Laschet or Söder.

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The Union's offspring also wanted to position themselves on Sunday evening.

According to information from the “Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland” and “Business Insiders”, the state chairmen of the Junge Union (JU) wanted to join a video conference at 8 pm.

JU boss Tilman Kuban had announced this step in the "Bild": "If they force us, we are ready in case of doubt, as a joint youth organization of the CDU and CSU, to take responsibility and to position ourselves."

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