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Munich (dpa) - After the CDU board vote for party leader Armin Laschet as candidate for chancellor, CSU boss Markus Söder wants to comment on this at noon in Munich.
According to the CSU, he wants to make a statement on the sidelines of a parliamentary group meeting in the state parliament at 1 p.m.
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.
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."
But it was also still open whether and how the CDU base would react.
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