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Stuttgart (AP) - A week after the end of the power struggle in the Union, CDU boss and chancellor candidate Armin Laschet meets with the southwest CDU, which had largely been on the side of CSU chairman Markus Söder.

All officials and mandate holders from the state, federal government and European Parliament are invited to the video switch on Tuesday evening (6 p.m.), the German Press Agency learned.

Five months before the federal election, Laschet also wants to swear the state associations to a common course, the majority of whom would have preferred Söder as a candidate for chancellor.

The CDU in Baden-Wuerttemberg is the second largest regional association and had already sided with Laschet's competitor Friedrich Merz in the race for federal presidency.

In the power struggle between Laschet and Söder, numerous members of the Bundestag from the southwest in particular spoke out in favor of the CSU chief. The two MPs Gunther Krichbaum from Pforzheim and Christian von Stetten from Schwäbisch Hall had even collected signatures for Söder in the parliamentary group and campaigned for the Union parliamentary group to make the decision on the candidate for chancellor.

On the other hand, CDU state chief and federal vice-president Thomas Strobl promoted the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Laschet at an early stage.

Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble, who also comes from Baden-Württemberg, had campaigned strongly for the CDU leader.

However, Strobl had to admit in the decisive CDU board meeting that there was a rift through the southwest CDU on the K question.

Internally, the state CDU even said that around three quarters of the base were for Söder.

Most recently, however, several in the southwest CDU had called for Laschet to be actively supported.

The Union parliamentary deputy in the Bundestag and CDU regional deputy Thorsten Frei said: "Now it is important to support Armin Laschet as our front man with all our might."

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