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CDU chief Armin Laschet
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Armin Laschet has a reputation that can be found flattering or harmful, depending on your perspective.
Some say he hesitates.
Someone who weighs things carefully, the others.
But one thing is undisputed: Laschet is not a riot politician.
Actually.
Because this week Laschet showed a side that you don't know about him.
Tuesday afternoon, the members of the Union parliamentary group meet in the Bundestag, Laschet is connected by video.
It's about Lars Feld, the previous head of the economic sector.
An ordoliberal economist whose term of office at the head of the advisory body is letting the federal government expire.
The SPD wanted it that way - against the will of the Union.
Laschet takes the dispute as an occasion for a remarkable frontal attack, above all against Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, the Social Democrats' candidate for Chancellor.
The Conservatives blame him for the post wrangling.
"Apparatschik of the SPD"
"What Scholz has allowed himself to do is a monstrous process," says Laschet according to the participants.
The SPD wanted to align the economic methods "left".
He has rarely seen anything like this.
Scholz, according to Laschet, behaves like an "apparatchik of the SPD".
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