CDU party leader Friedrich Merz has Speculation about possible coalitions was firmly rejected. “We don’t have coalition debates, not in the party or in public, but fight for the CDU,” he said on Sunday on the ZDF program “Berlin Direkt,” according to the broadcaster. “We talk about coalitions, about cooperation, not before the election dates.“
Before the CDU federal party conference that began on Monday, Schleswig-Holstein’s Prime Minister Daniel Günther (CDU) had the Debate about black and green reignited at the federal level. Günther had described the Greens as a “coalition partner” “with whom the Union can govern very well”. His CDU governs Schleswig-Holstein together with the Greens.
I have it before party conferences Such statements were “always” madesaid Merz in the ZDF interview. He himself sees the CDU as united. The party is going into the three-day federal party conference “with great confidence and great unity”.
Merz did not want Günther’s statements to be understood as an attack on himself. This is a discussion that “we are all having together,” he emphasized. “We are fighting for majorities and we are trying to… “To reach and exploit potential voters” who could “fundamentally imagine” voting for the Union parties CDU and CSU. The CDU has “made quite good progress” so far. The party is “not yet where we want to be, but we are on the way”.
In the upcoming state elections in Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg, the CDU wants to build on its “old strength” in East Germany, explained Merz. He himself wanted to be “very involved” in the election campaigns. One Collaboration with the AfD and the Left Party the CDU leader once again categorically ruled out with reference to current party conference resolutions.