Linnemann in the “ntv Frühstart”: “Bundestag election campaign will go off like this”


Linnemann in the “ntv early start”
“Bundestag election campaign will go off like this”

The CDU is starving in the polls and its chairman is at odds with the Chancellor. Union parliamentary group vice Linnemann calls for the ranks to be closed – but CSU boss Söder disagrees. Linnemann expects a federal election campaign, “he has washed himself”.

The deputy chairman of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, Carsten Linnemann, has criticized the latest statements by the Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder. Söder described it as “strange” that the CDU chairman Armin Laschet “argues with the Federal Chancellor six months before the election”. About Söder’s quote, Linnemann said on the ntv show “Frühstart”: “Personally, I find that unsuitable. I think we have to stick together now and not argue internally. We will see a federal election campaign that has washed itself.”

In the federal election, the question of who pays the “Corona bill” is also a question, Linnemann said. “It will happen in a way that we have never seen it in recent years and the Union must stick together,” said the CDU politician.

Plea for more “clarity”

With regard to the question of when the decision will be made as to who will run for the Union as candidate for chancellor, Linnemann said: “My feeling is that it is more towards Easter than towards Pentecost. We need this clarity.” About Armin Laschet as a possible candidate for chancellor, Linnemann said that he had shown that he could win elections for the CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia. Further: “He must then, should he become a candidate for chancellor, also show that in the federal government.” In addition, the Union must show people in Corona management: “Yes, we can do better.” The CDU politician also pleaded for a “sharp” election program.

CSU boss Markus Söder had said on Tuesday about the now discredited vaccine from the manufacturer Astrazeneca: “At some point you will have to operate at Astrazeneca with a lot of freedom and have to say: whoever wants and who dares, should also have the opportunity to have.” Linnemann again emphasized that vaccination is essentially not about “trusting”. You now have to see how it is with the acceptance, said Linnemann and added: “If it is then so that vaccination doses are left over, then it should also be released for the under 60-year-olds.”

The CDU politician advocated thinking about whether the time had come for politician vaccinations as a role model: “It is often said that if the politicians vaccinate themselves now, they want to be brought forward again, but I think now is a precision landing where now is perhaps the right time to lead by example. ”

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