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Military service, health care, energy policy - Chancellor Merkel wants to demonstrate in the fall with great determination to reform projects. But one you can ruin the tour: CSU-Chef Seehofer. The two combines deep hostility.
Berlin - Horst Seehofer Sometimes switches to stubborn. Quite deliberately. This has the CSU leader Franz Josef Strauss copied at predecessor. When not in conflict with Chancellor Helmut Kohl progressed, he simply grabbed the newspaper - and ignored the sitting opposite regent until the made a new offer.
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Seehofer does not then the printed material, but he is silent. Until it becomes uncomfortable for the Chancellor. Only one difference between the two CSU leaders: Ostrich Kohl held for "totally incapable" - Seehofer is such a misconception to Merkel has never given up.
That is his advantage. He dares to everything. You can not surprise him.
Merkel is at the mercy Seehofer: If he is stubborn, the wheels are still in their government machinery. She has no similar pressure. Seehofer is not subject to Cabinet discipline. The failure of black and yellow in Berlin, Merkel and lose FDP leader Guido Westerwelle their offices. Only Seehofer would remain what it is: Prime Minister of Bavaria.
Full risk is blockade
Therefore, Horst Seehofer, the only one in the government coalition, is willing to go full risk. And full of risk that: blockade of the government.
It could make the reform of the Bundeswehr. Or the reconstruction of the health system. Or the new rules of the Hartz-IV-phrases. Or the future energy policy of the federal government. Or all at once.
Seehofer has made it clear that he stands up to every single one of these conflicts. Not even his own with the CSU-Shooting Star: Merkel wants Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg suspend the conscription, the Chancellor does not seem averse to. Seehofer also thinks of the 68 army locations in Bavaria, will not get out of military service: "He who exposes them from creating." Horror scenario CSU strategists: an open dispute at the party in late October. The highest possible stage for Seehofer to Guttenberg and Merkel.
Again and again sends his country's Minister Seehofer in the battle against Berlin: Health Minister Markus Söder, for example, the reform plans of his counter parts at the federal level, Philipp Rösler (FDP), and again lay in ruins. After they had agreed on key points to Söder then took the bill before the Liberals: The disadvantage payers and physicians in the state. So, no approval of the CSU.
Then there is Christine Seehofer Social Haderthauer. You will need to draw the plans by Labour Minister Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) in the field, let the Hartz-IV children send cards instead of cash for education. The former is constitutionally questionable, so Haderthauer.
"You must be perceptible federal politics," Seehofer ordered his men again and again.
The problem: The game with the blockade must not feed the image of CSU leaders. So says the SPIEGEL that it has the upper Bavaria annoyed beyond measure when he had to read on vacation, that Merkel's people make him responsible for the black-yellow coalition chaos. Seehofer, the troublemaker. He had it before the summer break Merkel taken to task: he was tired of being told their confidants that he is an unprincipled Hallodri.
Exaggerated and pointed groundless
Such an assessment also gnaws at Seehofer's position in his own party. He pushes it too far with the Blockiererei, the shares of another could rise even further: those Guttenberg. The mighty Berlin CSU feels particularly since the debate on health care - not all CSU members reject the capitation - passed over by the Munich headquarters. Also striking that national group leader Hans-Peter Friedrich has now made in the fight to reform the armed forces to the side Guttenberg: Conscription would be no more endure in its present form, he said.
What is clear is Seehofer drives a rapid policy. Since his rise to power would be in the state and party ever-hyped new topics and often pointed groundless, says one from among the CSU leadership shake of the head.
Seehofer makes politics out of the belly, Merkel is thinking processes produce from their end. Seehofer rule quickly, Merkel can run things for now.
He is the instinct of politicians, it is the technician of power.
As Merkel in the economic crisis slow economic programs hung up, Seehofer could not understand: his point was that even the psychological effect to the gut feeling of the people. It seemed the thing to be regarded as a scientific experiment: it does not work, it changed the next time the same dose.
They govern together, they lead sister parties - and yet there is hardly a politician to the Merkel has such an inner distance as to Seehofer. Perhaps more to Oskar Lafontaine. The left five years ago to present one of his books from Seehofer: "Clear, concise analysis," said Bayer. And that the book with the "neo-liberal heresy grappling.
Lafontaine took aim when writing to his Intimfeind, the then Chancellor Gerhard Schröder. Seehofer Merkel had in mind.
For her he had been defeated in a fight against the capitation. Seehofer stepped down from his post back in the Union Deputy Group. Merkel already thought to have the Sacred Heart Socialists Seehofer discarded for good.
But Seehofer came back - just as agriculture minister in her own Cabinet. Stoiber Merkel had put him in front of the nose. Nothing she could do about it. In vain she had tried to haul CSU-man Michael Glos to replace the Ministry of Defence. Seehofer enjoyed his comeback. "Politically dead" as he was still been, he always flirted with a broad grin.
"We need not Germany"
Since Merkel is dependent on a man who hides behind an impenetrable protective coating of irony. "Magnificent" was Merkel's performance, says Seehofer regularly. And grins. No, he can not what. He, the climber from modest circumstances, the multiple failures, and yet politically undead, a few years ago with a heart muscle inflammation of dying patients: "lie If you ever with a cardiac output of only seven percent in the ICU, then many very small."
This is the Seehofer myth.
It guarantees independence from political players - but not from politics. By which he lives. Without this great game of power and attention, without this daily dose of government would wither Seehofer. Therefore it has to fear Merkel. Against someone like Roland Koch she was able to prevail, the now - will change only 52 years old - in the economy. As they became established six years ago in the health controversy against Seehofer, thought not quitting.
As Seehofer was honored in July by the Regensburger "royalists" - a fan group of the Bavarian fairy-tale king Ludwig II - he served, of course, ironic. He would have liked for the rest of his life monarch of a kingdom of Bavaria, he said: "We need not Germany." And in view of the donor countries in financial compensation, Baden-Wuerttemberg and Hesse, adding that Seehofer: "If I sit together with Stefan Mappus and Roland Koch, I know, we own the Federal Republic."