There must be two Markus Söder.
One could not bring himself to the sentence: Anyone who beats me is fit for chancellor.
Then he did not miss an opportunity to pull down this Armin Laschet, who was fit for chancellor, and with it the whole CDU.
The other, the second Markus Söder complains about the downward trend that is directed against Laschet (yes, where from?) And could have been avoided "if everyone had been drumming so much for so long" like this second Markus Söder.
Because he supports, as he now again asserted on Deutschlandfunk, Laschet one hundred percent (but how should it be, how could it be otherwise for a CSU chairman?).
In the meantime there are so many of the double Söder in the Union that they can no longer get rid of the ghosts that called them: Whatever this Laschet does, it is too little, too much, too happy, too sad, too early, too late, too lax, too brisk.
Söder rightly says that the polls should therefore not be taken at face value.
They promote the trend by asserting it - and you will not offend some institutes if you say: which they find very good.
Heavens knows why Söder then predicts that more than thirty percent are probably no longer possible for the Union, but the trend is too clear for that.
Was that the first again?
But maybe it's just because the first and second Söder have been fighting for weeks: "But the way in which people try to discredit Armin Laschet in public, I personally find unfair."