CSU Chairman and Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder has assured that the CSU will not sign a coalition agreement with the Greens in the event of a union election victory. In response to a related question, Söder said, “I’m absolutely clear on that.”
Söder justified this stance, among other things, by saying that the Greens’ rejection of the rejection of migrants at the German border for the Union is “elementary.” “Therefore, it is clear for us that the Greens will be excluded” Söder confirmed.
He called the Greens “main brakes on the migration issue.” The party is going “from a completely wrong idea” on this issue. At the same time, Söder directed sharp criticism at the party: “The Greens have almost spiritually enslaved themselves to Robert Habeck. He is their top man, and that is also in order, as the Greens decide alone.”
However, it is noticeable that “Robert Habeck is trying to run a completely de-ideologized election campaign.” Söder added: “Even with all the sympathy for a kitchen table: Who would rather sit at the kitchen table than at the cabinet table says from the start that he is giving up on politics. And it’s not enough just to run a kind of hugging election campaign if one is the most unsuccessful economics minister in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany.”
Söder concluded: “It would be a disaster for the mood in Germany, for the economy – for the economy is also psychology – if Habeck were again appointed as Economics Minister.”
CDU leader and Union Chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz had not ruled out the possibility of Habeck again becoming Economics Minister in a union-led federal government. Söder, on the other hand, said to the Bild am Sonntag: “One can talk to someone and be polite, but one must not make them a coalition partner. That is my clear stance.”
In response to the question of why the Union is not gaining in the polls, Söder said he suspected that many potential CDU/CSU voters did not trust the Union to bring about a genuine policy change: “I believe that many potential Union voters are uncertain. Will it be enough for a fundamental change? Or is it just a government instead of a directional change? Does it mean Angela Merkel 4.0? Or is it really a new government with a new handwriting and mentality? Will one focus again on German virtues like industriousness, diligence, decorum, and punctuality? Or will it go on with the whole woke sauce, with always more gendering?