Wowh, that did not take long: the chief of the CSU, Horst Seehofer, has opened debate on whether CDU and CSU shall continue as a "Fraktionsgemeinschaft", a union of two sister parties, and wants his party to have a vote on whether or not they want to continue side by side together with the CDU.
CDU/CSU have been de facto one party on national level since the founding of the federal republic after the war.
In the past years, Seehofer tried the impossible, attacking Merkel over the migration crisis, to appease the conservatives in his party, but always in the last minute falling back and lining up with her again to not threaten the government. It has pissed many conservative voters, who necessarily feel betrayed by his manouverings. They turned away and let the CSU in bavaria almost collapse this time. usually they sack results above the 50% level in their home state.
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