The opposition in the Union against Chancellor Angela Merkel was over the summer, never quite gone. Now it swells again. Politicians of the CDU and CSU to ensure new noise, once again on the issue of Migration.
Again, there are rumblings in the Union. And again, it is the topic of debate refugee policy in the German Chancellor Angela Merkel in your party camp on contradiction. If it winds on Friday and Saturday on the foreign policy stage, resolution, is a crisis, it is more at home cracking.
Federal provides interior Minister Horst Seehofer. Migration is the “mother of all problems”, said the CSU politician, according to media reports on the escalation in Chemnitz. There have been, so the “Bild”newspaper cited him in the first place, “a brutal crime”. Seehofer said behind closed doors to the CSU Bundestag deputies. The framework of such a closed-door session, in front of the door dozens of journalists waiting for news, guaranteed a publication. And the “mother of all problems” shows: The fierce dispute, of Merkel’s CDU and Seehofer’s CSU led in June to the brink of divorce is to break down the shepherd.
Hatred and persecution
Saxony’s Prime Minister, Michael Kretschmer, got opposition of the Chancellor
And for the new noise, the Saxon Prime Minister, Michael Kretschmer (CDU). He quarrels with Merkel the issue of assessing the events of Chemnitz. Reminder: seeds of the death of a 35-year-old German had demonstrated to the violence alleged by refugees of thousands of people against the presence of foreigners in the city, often right-wing, populist, openly extreme right, and occasionally violent. And yet, Kretschmer said on Wednesday in Dresden: “There was no Mob, there was no witch hunt, there was no Pogrom in Chemnitz.” Hours later, Angela Merkel, by contrast, held in Berlin: You’ve seen pictures, “have made it very clear hatred and also persecution of innocent people”.
Both Seehofer and Kretschmer, show Merkel: The Union argues the refugee policy and the Opening to the Right. It is the battle against Merkel. Both demonstrate their distance to Merkel.
…and another conflict
Now another conflict is about to erupt. In the parliamentary group, it goes against Merkel’s most important-Familiar, Volker Kauder. 25. September the re-election of the group leaders of the Union. So far, so a little Routine. The Westphalian CDU MP Ralph Brinkhaus, yet Kauders Deputy, now dare to go Against a candidate. He wants to introduce on Monday in the Union group, on his plans for the event that he is elected to the Faction leader. It’ll go to him, he said to the magazine “Focus” to a “greater independence of the Union group, to the Federal Chancellery and the CDU-top”. Is meant, here as there, Angela Merkel.
The struggle with double the explosive force. Because the office of the group leaders is especially in the case of the CDU/CSU in a large office. Among the previous incumbents to win Konrad Adenauer, Rainer Barzel and Helmut Kohl, Wolfgang Schäuble, Friedrich Merz, Angela Merkel.
Who cut off the tops of Kauder, the cuts to Merkel
Merkel’s Governor in the group – still: Volker Kauder
And Kauder, the Brinkhaus want to replace, is Merkel’s guarantor in the group. He is a day longer the Chairman of the group, as Merkel is Chancellor, soon to be 13 years. The Baden-württemberg Kauder is Merkel’s loyal Companion in the group. He fixes organized in many cases more, for you criticism, took renegade colleagues from the own camp quietly into the prayer. Who cut off the tops of Kauder, cuts to Merkel.
Speaking about the announcement of brink house with CDU deputies, to quote you by name, then a lack of understanding dominates. The push was a dilettante steal table. And he aims to Merkel. In the spring of some, should have kept such a fall of the group leaders for possible – but not now. Since the fierce, yet last crash between the CSU-top, and the Merkel-CDU-camp, who had torn the Union family in June, nearly, tendon in fact, no one in the group, according to a new dispute.
The Issue Of Security
If you ask the CDU-members, so you can experience in the constituencies during the past few weeks, not a big criticism of the Merkel course. But you name across the regions, however, a topic that always come back to language: the internal security. The hot iron, to fight the Merkel has.
Of state, parliamentarians describe their basic impressions, needed to counteract the subjective feeling of uncertainty is stronger, the rule of law in a more obvious experience. This sentiment is not always with the subject of refugees. She was there, and the party must take seriously. The people knew well the economic situation and, therefore, were satisfied, so the deputies.
In this positive economic Manfred Güllner sees as the main point of the Chancellor. “It has positioned itself for a long time as a live rescue,” says the head of the opinion research Institute Forsa for the German wave. “Merkel has never been able to properly ignite euphoria. She has lived actually, and your good Approval ratings get, that makes it sound policy, that she goes on point of view, no great promises.”
The Foreign Politician
The travel of the first Merkel after the summer break, went to Eastern Europe and Africa. The objectives matched the concern for the common Europe, and to the objective of limiting the Migration. On Tuesday, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker had a guest. This Friday you will continue your visit with the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, in Marseille.
Often on the go these days: Chancellor Merkel to travel
The Chancellor is these days primary foreign politician. And yet, the CDU-MP seen in the European talks, Merkel’s reference to the personnel debate in the group. Merkel juggle currently, the staff decisions in the coming years: The future President of the Commission, the top candidate of the European Conservatives for the European elections of the next Secretary-General of NATO, the next head of the European Central Bank, a possible next EU Commissioner from Germany.
The Chancellor says a member of Parliament, wool in Europe, “the stage is set for the next five years”. And then, says another, it could be pending with the question of succession in the Chancellor’s office soon, a change to the group top.