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Röttgen: Laschet’s resignation by choice would have been wrong

The CDU politician Norbert Röttgen defended the fact that the Union, with its defeated candidate for Chancellor Armin Laschet, is exploring a coalition with the Greens and the FDP.

On Sunday evening in the ARD program “Anne Will”, he said no to the question of whether Laschet should not have had to resign immediately after the Union’s defeat in the Bundestag election last Sunday. “That would have been wrong,” said Röttgen, who is considered one of those who want to overthrow Laschet in order to move into the center of power of the Union himself.

Resigning would have been wrong because it was not yet clear who could form a government – the SPD, Greens and FDP in a traffic light coalition or the union with the Greens and FDP in a so-called Jamaica alliance. “If that is not the case, the Union is also obliged to hold talks,” explained Röttgen and added, referring to the internal party elections, “with the staff who were elected.”

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