That’s a coalition: CSU and left united in rejection. And in fear. Because in addition to the Left Party, the CSU could no longer make it into the Bundestag in the next election – if the planned right to vote becomes reality.
Because with the new electoral law, the so-called basic mandate clause is to be deleted. Which means: If the CSU with their second votes in Bavaria didn’t get over the five percent hurdle in the federal government, the previously unimaginable would happen – they would have no more seats in the Bundestag. And lose power beyond the region. That would even apply if she were to win all 46 direct mandates “dahoam”. They no longer count if the five percent of the total votes have not been reached.
The three direct mandates previously required for entry into the Bundestag also saved the left in 2021, otherwise they would have failed because of the five percent. The CSU came to 5.2 percent at the time. That suddenly sounds tight for the future.
Stephan Andreas Casdorff is the publisher of the Tagesspiegel. For him, a Bundestag without the CSU is not a solution either.
Great excitement left and right; the SPD had only responded to objections from experts close to the Union during the consultations. She believed that this would accommodate the CDU and CSU.
The Union wants nothing more to do with it. Why? CDU/CSU can only win together. Without each other, not only something is missing, but a lot: the chance for the chancellorship.
Even if everyone thinks at the moment that next time Friedrich Merz, CDU leader on the third try, will not miss the chance to run for chancellor – Markus Söder, the CSU chairman, fuels other ideas of power with his mere political existence. Namely to a Bavarian or Franconian in the Chancellery.
This idea is still haunting many of the Union’s heads, so Söder can say what he wants. Wouldn’t he soften up if the CDU only wanted to ask him enough? Bets on and against will be settled in due course. There’s still a little time. However, one thing is clear: If the CSU is missing in the Bundestag, Söder cannot possibly become chancellor.
There is little time for objections to the changed electoral law. The reform is imperative, urgent. That in the end the CSU with the left votes against it? Inconceivably. On the other hand: there are coalitions that don’t even exist…
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