Category: Leaders

"I am no longer prepared to simply go over to the order of the day". We have to do better, also in berlin," said bavaria’s minister-president on monday evening on ZDF television. He again called for a meeting of the party leaders of the CDU, CSU and FDP to solve urgent problems such as the energy transition. Because of its faltering implementation, environment minister norbert rottgen (CDU), who was also NRW’s top candidate, is coming under further pressure.

"We shouldn’t talk about something that isn’t already there," seehofer said, referring to the CDU’s plunge to 26.3 percent in sunday’s election in germany’s most populous state. This was a disaster. "My answer is simply that we don’t act now as if nothing happened yesterday, but we have to draw consequences from it," seehofer told ZDF’s "heute journal".

State party chairman florian pronold took a steaming 80.6 percent in his re-election at a state party conference in augsburg on saturday – just under four percentage points less than two years ago. Secretary general natascha kohnen also achieved a worse result than in 2011 (85.1) with 80.5 percent.

Before pronold’s re-election, top candidate christian ude had warned the almost 270 delegates entitled to vote: "there are butchers and companions who like to tick the box." He would like to see a strong and united SPD. State leader pronold has opponents, especially among the jusos; recently, deputy state chairman thomas beyer also criticized pronold’s leadership style. Beyer did not run again in augsburg on saturday.

With wolfgang kubicki, the liberals were able to stop their series of defeats that had lasted for more than a year, but it was hardly enough for a new CDU/FDP coalition to be formed. The left-wing party is threatened with extinction after only two and a half years in parliament, while the pirates have been allowed to continue their triumphant march. The election is seen as an important test for the vote in north rhine-westphalia on the following sunday and for the federal government.

More than 2.2 million citizens are called to the polls. Eleven parties compete for the regular 69 seats in the state parliament. The number of mandates increased significantly as a result of overhang and compensatory mandates. At last count, the state parliament had 95 deputies.

In the 1:1 draw, both teams had stronger and less good phases, but offered the 170 incessant spectators appealing soccer fare on a difficult course in the constant rain. After a quarter of an hour, the final result was already clear, even if both defenses and referee wilfried teichmann still had to overcome a few tricky situations in the final phase. Due to the division of points and the simultaneous defeat of table leader hallerndorf, both teams remain promising in the race for the lead.

The omens promised an explosive game between two old rivals, which, due to the weather situation, was fought over. Fortunately, the referee wilfried teichmann, an experienced referee, was sent in by the team organizer and left no doubt as to who was the boss on the pitch. The hosts wanted to sniff a little more of the high air, but the guests' supporters also calculated all the possible results of the other summit before the oberland derby – assuming their own victory, of course.