Showdown in the Chancellery - Chancellor Scholz senses “intrigue” against CDU leader Merz at the migration summit

FOCUS online Showdown in the Chancellery - Chancellor Scholz senses “intrigue” against CDU leader Merz at the migration summit Article from FOCUS Online • 5 hours Chancellor Olaf Scholz brought the state prime ministers and CDU leader Friedrich Merz together to solve the pressing problems of migration policy. According to Scholz, there was an “intrigue” against Merz. Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants a Germany pact. Everyone should overcome a major challenge together: the migration crisis. To do this, Scholz joined forces with the state leaders and the opposition leaders Friedrich Merz (CDU) and Alexander Dobrindt (CSU). But the Chancellor's wish for unity, justice and freedom will probably not be fulfilled. Because Olaf Scholz senses an “intrigue”. The Union's state leaders apparently want to boot their own party leader Merz. This is what RTL and n-tv report. Accordingly, the prime ministers initially kept the top round waiting for a long time. The reason: The Union-led countries wanted to include several additional demands in the joint paper. Some failed. But one thing was added to the list of demands: a federal-state commission for future migration policy. Dispute between Wüst and Merz possibly reason for “intrigue” While Scholz wants to sit at the negotiating table with Merz and Dobrindt, the states would rather negotiate directly with him. And since the country leaders made this demand at the last minute - one day after Scholz's meeting with the Union faction leaders - Scholz is suspected of “intrigue”. RTL and n-tv explain the behavior with the burgeoning competition between the powerful NRW state boss Hendrik Wüst and Merz. Only one of the two can run as the Union's candidate for chancellor in 2025. Merz is said to have suspected his counterpart Wüst of rebelling against him several times, according to RTL and n-tv. “If Friedrich Merz could have dictated points to us” Boris Rhein, CDU state leader of Hesse, took a somewhat succinct stance on the showdown in the Chancellery at the press conference for the migration summit: “As it is. Things happen. Things continue to develop.” These are “points that are particularly important to the countries”. And further: "If Friedrich Merz could have dictated points to us, then perhaps they would have been other points than these points." This also makes it clear from which direction the supposed "intrigue" comes.