🇩🇪 CDU Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: We are fighting for our survival

There is still a good week to go before the state election, but the CDU has now fallen to around 7%. The party’s own candidate, Daniel Peters, is no longer speaking merely of poor poll numbers.

“We are now fighting for our survival”, Peters said.

He sees federal politics as one of the main reasons for this development. According to Peters, people in the state are deeply disappointed with Berlin, and the federal coalition has “apparently still not understood what this is really about.”

That is why the regional CDU is trying to distance itself from Friedrich Merz as much as possible. Peters confirmed that there would be no new joint events with the chancellor before the election.

Merz most recently appeared on August 31 at a CDU campaign event in Kühlungsborn—and some of those present greeted him with boos and insults.

The situation for the party is indeed almost dramatic: The AfD is polling at around 37–38%, the SPD at 33–34%, while the CDU is polling at just 7%.

Ahead of the election on September 20, the local CDU is therefore trying above all to make one thing clear to voters: This is not Merz’s election, but that of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

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