Tuesday, Armin Laschet remained discreet.
In front of the cameras, the candidate for the Chancellery, white shirt and sleeves rolled up, disappeared behind Angela Merkel.
The head of the German government was visiting, together with the president of the CDU, the victims of Bad Munstereifel, a small town in North Rhine-Westphalia particularly affected by the floods which killed more than 160 people in the country.
The opportunity for the Chancellor to promise the victims rapid compensation.
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Incidentally, his trip was intended to put in the saddle his designated dolphin, author three days earlier of a big political blunder.
On Saturday, the poll favorite was filmed laughing out loud as German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier gave a compassionate speech in Erftstadt, in a district administered by Laschet himself.
"In power in a sleeping car"
Since then, the latter has apologized twice, without appearing very convincing.
The first time to assimilate his fake
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