CDU: “Pure CDU has failed” – Before the exam, the pressure on Merz is growing

Berlin. Since the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, nothing has been the same in the CDU. Within two weeks in September, the party not only lost government responsibility in Magdeburg and was thrown out of a state parliament in Schwerin for the first time in its history. Above all, the CDU lost to the AfD. It has set itself the goal of destroying the CDU.

In Magdeburg, the AfD may nominate a prime minister for the first time in December. And in Schwerin the AfD already sees itself as the new bourgeois party. The CDU? Only extra-parliamentary opposition.

In view of this situation and the catastrophic poll results of the coalition as well as the Chancellor and CDU leader Friedrich Merz, the party leadership is going into retreat this Sunday until Monday morning.