18 Jan 2021
I wrote yesterday that I would explain the situation of the CDU and its view of the upcoming September elections Will the CDU preserve the professional hierarchy and personality of its candidates, especially since the party has provided one of its best Chancellors since the beginning of the eighties?!
Given the position of the German Chancellor, which is the third highest position in the Federal Republic in terms of the hierarchy of German machinery policy, and in practice it is the most important in the media, public opinion and the executive body in Berlin the last Chancellors from the Christian Democratic Union are two exceptional personalities in modern German history, namely Mr. #Helmut_Kohl, who is nicknamed (Unity Architect) and Mrs. #Angela_Merkel, who has been called by many titles, but the appropriate title for Scholar Merkel is (Iron Chancellor) although many people like the title (Mutti) which means the mother But why do we say that these two characters are exceptional?!
When looking for the position of Chancellor of Germany, you will most likely find five prominent pictures: 1️⃣ #Otto_Von_Bismarck 2️⃣ #Adolf_Hitler 3️⃣ #Konrad_Adenauer 4️⃣ Helmut Kohl 5️⃣ Angela Merkel
Each of these figures has an impact not only on the German domestic scene, but it is not an exaggeration to say European and international regionalism It is also striking that three of the five prominent Chancellors are from Germany's largest, center-right party, the Christian Democratic Union based on these historical coordinates, the party’s mission is currently considered delicate, critical, and difficult to complete the party’s journey that recently celebrated its diamond jubilee,
The party historically adopted a policy of the right-wing center that believed in sharing with the adequate spectrum of German society. Since Konrad Adenauer, the first leader of the party, who is considered one of the builders of the German community contract after the Second World War, Germany emerged destroyed and even divided between an eastern communist camp and a capitalist western camp the wheel of politics is moderate and calm, characterized by wisdom and prudence but why are the 2021 elections the most critical and similar to those faced by the first leader of the party?!
After the financial donations scandal faced by the German-European Unity Adviser Helmut Kohl, which made Germany known to the black money scandal, which led Kohl to retire himself as a political player, and even to resign his successor in the leadership of the party, the current speaker of the German Parliament #Wolfgang_Schäuble The largest party in the Federal Parliament, the Bundestag, witnessed changes that pulled the party from the rigidity of the traditional conservatives to the centrist dynamic, which led to the election of the first woman to lead the party, Mrs. Angela Dortea Merkel Despite the party’s brief loss in the leadership of the German Chancellery in favor of the ideologically and practically traditional rival, when Gerhard Schroeder of the Social Democratic Party won the chancellor’s chair, the CDU soon regained the chancellor’s chair in 2005 with tough elections when Mrs. Merkel won and since that time she is an exceptional chancellor for Germany,
Merkel made a qualitative leap not only at the political level, but also economically and socially, which passed through gradual stages, but things began to get complicated gradually since 2015, specifically when Mrs. Merkel opened the door for asylum to Syrian refugees and the rise of the extreme right in 2013 from the gate of Walid's party, the Alternative for Germany party, amid European crises. Neighboring Germany, which led Mrs. Merkel to warn that the time has come for a change and that she would be very selfish to remain the leader of the party and of Germany in general Therefore, she took the important step of leaving the leadership of the party to her student, the German Minister of Defense, Mrs. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer She was also alerted that her successor would not be able to lead this heavy legacy. Hence, in the elections that took place two days ago, Omen Lachit was elected, who is described as being able at least to lead the party but will he be the party's candidate for the chancellery chair?!
His chance will be great, but it is uncertain and it bears the conditions that must be met in order to win the confidence of his joint parliamentary bloc with the sister party of the Christian Democratic Union, which is the Christian Social Party, and this is what we may witness at some point in the spring of this year But before that, the party will face local elections on the fourteenth of next March in the states of Baden-Württemberg and Rheinland-Palatinate, and the party does not lead the prime minister in the two states at present, and the local elections in the two states will be a small test for the newly elected party leader Lachit and will determine whether he succeeds or not Here, another party enters the picture, the party's sister party, the Bavarian party, where the sister party runs candidates for the Bundestag in Bavaria and in 15 other municipalities and together they presented a candidate for the post of chancellor, where in 2002 the brother party presented Stoiber for the position of chancellor In any case, there is a greater chance for Laschet than the others if he is first able to succeed in the local elections for the two aforementioned states, and is also dependent on his ability to lead the two parties and convince them of his candidacy file,
Laschet has a high chance to be nominated as a Chancellor, the company of his competitors for the leadership of the party, namely, #Friedrich_Mertz and #Rottingen, and if they fail to get support from their parliamentary bloc, there is an opportunity for other candidates, namely:
1️⃣ Marcus Söder, 54 years old, from Nuremberg, who is the leader of the CDU's sister party, is a conservative and hard-line Catholic who is currently showing flexibility in his image to run, but in the end he is not an extremist.
2️⃣ Jens Spahn, the current 40-year-old German Health Minister, comes from the North Rhine Westphalia Politically, Spahn is described as being between Lachit the centerist and the hard-right Friedrich Mertz, professional cautiously, but his chance is the lowest among all the candidates,
I hope that you like the analysis.