Berlin – The music proclaims drama. “The Final Countdown” resounds from the speakers, applause breaks out. Then Armin Laschet makes his way towards the podium. The CDU chancellor candidate will soon be speaking about his plans for Germany in the next few years – in front of an audience that is actually well-disposed towards him.
On Tuesday, the CDU Economic Council invited to its “Economic Day 2021” at the fine Berlin Marriott Hotel on Stauffenbergstrasse. With more than 10,000 members, the professional and lobbying association is not an official party organization. But he is close to the CDU. But even here, among the Union’s core clientele, the middle class, the grumbling about the party’s course was unmistakable. In an association survey among its members, 82 percent of the FDP attested a good or very good economic profile. Only then did the Union come with 66 percent. A resounding slap in the face.
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