N-TV picked up the debate after the CDU kind of fell and stumbled through Sunday's state elections in Baden-Wurttemberg and the Pfalz.
Their journalist suggested that the new CDU Party boss (Laschet) and Bavaria's Premier-President (Soder)....are not putting the party in a better position for the critical national election set for September.
The better pick? The suggestion is Friedrich Merz (on Merkel's bad-boy list).
I sat and pondered this 20-line story. It's simply the view of the journalist here, and one clear fact from these two state elections of yesterday....the CDU in recent weeks has stumbled. Part of this is the mask scandal (I've essayed about this from last week), and part of this goes to imagery going on from the Covid-19 ban-rules.
Some Germans will openly admit that their patience has been maxed-out. If you were to dish out 'blame'....both the CDU and SPD get a bit.
Would the top leadership of the CDU agree to having Merz as the Chancellor candidate? No.....you can round up the top ten CDU-Party active folks (Merkel being among them), and probably eight out of the ten are anti-Merz. The majority want a clone of Merkel and policies which go down the same path as they've done for the past fifteen years.
If you took retired CDU members? Just a humble guess, but they are probably about 90-percent pro-Merz.
So this may get tossed around for a while, but I just don't see the CDU Party admitting that Merz is the better person for the present job.
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