The demands on the foreign minister and the defense minister to resign after the Afghan debacle are not unjustified.
But none of the opposition politicians who raised them should have really expected that Heiko Maas and Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer would give up their offices shortly before the end.
In a few weeks the federal election is due to prevent even those willing to resign from their respective parties from such an admission of guilt.
Söder wants to get in between
Even the CSU chairman Söder now no longer wants to lead a personnel debate. What for? In particular, Maas (but probably also Kramp-Karrenbauer) is already a thing of the past from a Munich perspective. If someone should come up with the idea of nominating the SPD man again for a cabinet post, the CSU wants to intervene. Of course, Söder could only keep this promise if the CSU were to participate in coalition negotiations again (for which, however, it was previously the case that only the ministries were distributed within them; each party decides who becomes minister).
The Bavarian Prime Minister does not seem to have completely lost faith in the fact that the Union with Laschet will win the election. Apparently, Söder also considers it possible to have to govern with the SPD again, otherwise he would not have to worry about preventing Maasen in the next federal cabinet. One notices here, too, that these are the thoughts of a chancellor who was unable to attend.