Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Strauß ya ɗauki rashin jituwa a matsayin wurin farawa don kimanta damar fadada CSU a matakin tarayya, kamar samun jerin sunayen masu zabe daban-daban a jihohin North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony, Hamburg, da Bremen. Ya yi fatan janye masu jefa kuri'a na dama daga FDP zuwa CSU kuma ya tafi har zuwa yin ganawa ta sirri da masana'antun a Arewacin Rhine-Westphalia. Wadannan yunƙurin sun haifar da rashin jin daɗi a cikin membobin membobin CDU kuma sun hana damar jam'iyyun biyu a zaɓen da ke tafe. Kohl da kansa ya yi shiru a yayin wannan tashin hankali, wanda wasu suka fassara shi a matsayin rashin jagoranci, yayin da wasu kamar shugaban gaba Karl Carstens suka yaba masa saboda neman yarjejeniya a tsakiyar jam'iyyar. A cikin zaɓen tarayya na 1976, ƙungiyar CDU / CSU ta yi aiki sosai, ta sami kashi 48.6% na kuri'un. An hana su daga gwamnati ta hanyar majalisar zartarwa ta tsakiya da Jam'iyyar Social Democratic Party ta Jamus da Free Democratic Party suka kafa, wanda Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt ya jagoranta. Bayan haka Kohl ya yi ritaya a matsayin minista-shugaban Rhineland-Palatinate don zama shugaban CDU / CSU a Bundestag. Bernhard Vogel ne ya gaje shi.  Tambaya: Kafin ya jagoranci CDU / CSU menene Kohl yayi?
Ministan-shugaban Rhineland-Palatinate