CSU: Merz emphasizes the solidarity of the Union parties

Munich. At the CSU party conference, Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) called for the solidarity of the two Union parties so that together they remain the strongest political force in Germany. “We will have to fight,” he shouted to the approximately 700 delegates in the Munich exhibition hall.

However, he remained silent on one topic in his almost hour-long speech: despite the Union sisters' sworn closeness, he did not reveal how he felt about the CSU's proposal to make the Bavarian state parliament president Ilse Aigner federal president.

At the start of his speech at the CSU party conference, directly after CSU leader Markus Söder, the Chancellor also welcomed Bavaria's state parliament president, Ilse Aigner, by name - and received cheers from the delegates. Merz named Aigner, whose party she would like to see as the next Federal President, almost in the same breath after Söder and before the head of the European People's Party, Manfred Weber.

The delegates then burst into applause and cheers and rose from their seats. Aigner, who was sitting in the front row, also stood up and waved with both hands into the exhibition hall in Munich. Merz greeted Aigner, but also Federal Research Minister Dorothee Bär, with kisses left and right as he entered the hall.