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SPD candidate for Chancellor Olaf Scholz
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Despite relatively low polls recently, SPD Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz does not consider his party to be left behind in the federal election campaign.
“One requirement has already been met.
CDU / CSU know that they will not get over 30 percent, so that we can now lead the next government with a very good result, clearly in the top 20 percent, "said the Vice Chancellor on Monday evening in the ZDF program" What now .. .? «.
The SPD had "the right suggestions" for how things should go on in Germany.
"That's why we believe that we could also be ahead." The party made a conscious decision to nominate the candidate for chancellor at an early stage - unlike the Union and the Greens would have done.
In surveys nationwide, the SPD is currently around 15 percent.
Most recently, the Greens were in some cases well ahead of the Union - and the SPD was recently closer to the FDP than to the CDU / CSU.
Scholz was nevertheless confident that a race to catch up could succeed.
He himself stands for "that the twenties are going well," emphasized Scholz.
“The question of how we will be in the future will be decided now.
It's not something you can fix in four years if you're wrong now. "
He sees his government experience as an advantage - coupled with "the right heart" and a plan.
After all, major challenges such as man-made climate change have to be overcome.
mjm / dpa
