Today, with reference to sources, Handelsblatt wrote on its website about the intentions of Armin Laschet, according to which this request was unanimously supported by the local provincial leadership of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).
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Lascheta, who is also the chairman of the CDU in addition to the prime minister’s office, will be replaced by Hendrik Wüst in the chair of the head of state government in North Rhine-Westphalia, according to the server.
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The CDU / CSU finished second to Social Democracy (SPD) in Sunday’s parliamentary elections, but Laschet, like his Social Democratic rival Olaf Scholz, is seeking a chancellor.
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The change in the prime minister’s post is not surprising, because according to the state constitution of North Rhine-Westphalia, Laschet would have to leave office no later than the inaugural session of the new Bundestag. That will be October 26th. However, Laschet said at a press conference on Monday that he would remain prime minister for the time being.
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On Monday, however, the CDU’s state leadership unanimously expressed a desire for a quick prime ministerial exchange, which Laschet also supported, said Handelsblatt, according to which the chancellor’s candidate wants to manage the exchange process this weekend.
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The Greens want Habeck as vice-chancellor
If the Greens sit in the future German government, as is generally assumed, the tone will be set not by the Chancellor’s candidate for this environmental party, Annalena Baerbock, but by her co-presidential colleague, Robert Habeck. According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), he should obtain a vice-chancellor.
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The Greens entered the election with great ambition, openly running for office as candidate Baerbock. She was nominated as her election leader in April, when Habeck withdrew from her candidacy. The Greens then stood at the peak of popularity for several weeks, when, according to surveys, they were the strongest party in Germany. On Sunday, however, the party finished third with 14.8 percent of the vote, which was the best result so far, but fell far short of original expectations.
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Baerbock was accompanied by several scandals related to the beautification of her biography, unrecognized party Christmas bonuses or accusations of plagiarism in writing the book. The blow to the party was also the fact that its candidate list in the Saarland was excluded due to internal party disputes.
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After the election, Baerbock admitted that the result was not what the party expected. “We didn’t achieve it because of our own mistakes, because of my own mistakes,” she said of the result. Now, according to information from the FAZ, Habeck, who has already started assembling a team for probing negotiations, will come to the fore. Habeck has also spoken to representatives of other parties.
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The Social Democracy (SPD) of Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz won the German election, followed by the conservative CDU / CSU union Armin Laschet, who also wants to lead Germany. But to form a government, both need the support of the Greens as well as the Free Democrats (FDP). The leader of the liberal party FDP Christian Lindner stated before the election that in the case of a coalition of three political formations, Germany will have two vice-chancellors.
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In Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Germany, candidates who openly declared a transgender identity during the campaign entered the Bundestag for the first time. The German association of transgender people, the Bundesverband Trans *, considers this to be a historic moment and states that so far only one trans person has sat in the Bundestag, who only declared his identity during his term of office.
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