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Munich / Berlin (dpa) - Bavaria's Finance Minister Albert Füracker (CSU) sees a vote against the CDU party base in the CDU vote for party leader Armin Laschet as candidate for chancellor.
"The CDU board has now decided," said Füracker on Tuesday.
Nevertheless, he is very surprised that the clear pro-Söder mood at the CDU base has been completely ignored.
"To take a decision against your own base five months before the general election is very remarkable," said the CSU politician.
Füracker emphasized that the CSU chairman Markus Söder would have been ready to take on responsibility with the candidacy for chancellor. "If this offer is now rejected, the responsibility lies with the CDU." Whether the six-hour CDU meeting, with a midnight vote, served the goal of uniting the CDU, which was so divided on the question of the candidate for chancellor, he left to the assessment of Laschet and the CDU, emphasized Füracker. "The feedback I have received does not indicate that the CDU board has made a contribution to new unity with this approach."
In a special digital meeting of the CDU board on Tuesday night, 31 of the 46 voting board members had secretly pleaded for their own party chairman Laschet as candidate for chancellor.
9 voted for Söder, 6 abstained.
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The nerve-wracking power struggle for the Union's candidacy for chancellor for the federal election is likely to be decided because the CSU had previously placed this question in the hands of the CDU.
The CDU is now deciding this “sovereignly”, Söder said on Monday in Munich.
"We as the CSU and I also respect every decision."
According to CSU information, Söder wants to comment on the CDU board vote for Laschet on the sidelines of a parliamentary group meeting in the state parliament - at 1 p.m.
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