Voting Process - Holetschek urges an open dialogue regarding potential chancellorship candidate.
The CSU in the Bavarian state legislature's head, Klaus Holetschek, calls for open debate on who should become the Union's chancellor candidate after the European elections. "The question of what the appropriate candidate is must be talked about," Holetschek explained to the "Augsburger Allgemeine." "I think the candidate for Chancellor will be questioned again."
Just recently, CSU leader Markus Söder stated that CDU head Friedrich Merz is the frontrunner for the Union's Chancellor bid. "Of course, a CDU chairperson is always the favorite," explained Söder to Bayerischer Rundfunk following Merz's confirmation as party chief with roughly 90% of votes at the CDU party meeting in May.
"We undoubtedly will discover a suitable solution collaboratively. Everyone can depend on this," Söder underlined then. He referred to the planned schedule of the sister parties: "We now have the individual phases - the European election, the state elections in the fall [...] and then there will be a joint determination."
In the European election, the CSU maintained its position as Bavaria's dominant party with a result of 39.7%, slightly below the 40.7% in 2019.
The CSU (Christian Social Union) is the Bavarian sister party of the CDU (Christian Democratic Union of Germany). While the CSU only participates in Bavaria, the CDU only takes part in the other 15 German federal states. They form a single faction with the CSU in the German parliament and have a shared candidate for national elections.
