A new Bundestag will soon be elected.
In surveys, the Greens slip below the 20 percent mark - Markus Söder's optimism can be seen in an interview with “Merkur”.
Munich - Annalena Baerbock learned to plug in early on. As a teenager, she broke her ankle while jumping on a trampoline in 1994 and cried bitterly in hospital, as she recalls in her upcoming book. In the end, even the doctor was irritated by the fact that the tears would not stop flowing. The problem is not the pain, explained the young Annalena. "But I wanted to be German champion in a week."
27 years later, the Greens leader is preparing again for an important competition.
This time it is also a kind of German championship.
On Friday there are exactly 100 days until the federal election in 2021, in which the Greens and their co-chairmen go with certain hopes for the title.
However, there is still a parallel to 1994. In the last few weeks Baerbock has had a few more painful experiences.
Polls: Greens lose favor with voters - Söder sends greetings to the competition
This time the reputation and credibility of the first candidate for chancellor to send the Greens into a race have been damaged. Four weeks ago the party was just ahead of the Union in the ZDF Politbarometer (25 to 24), but the debates about Baerbock's additional income and curriculum vitae as well as other irritating topics (arms deliveries to Ukraine) have left their mark.
In an Insa survey for the
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the Greens slide down to 19.5 percent.
The CDU and CSU are clearly ahead with 27.5 percent, the SPD has 16.5 percent.
The same Union that afforded a grueling number of candidates and was recently faced with a fateful choice in Saxony-Anhalt is now enjoying increasing values.
As a union, one is "on the whole on the right track," says CSU boss Markus Söder to
Münchner Merkur
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He can't help saying hello to the competition: "It just shows that the Greens are not yet ready to rule Germany."
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Party convention scene: While Annalena Baerbock leaves the stage with co-party leader Robert Habeck, the Green Chancellor candidate curses.
© Felix Zahn / Imago
On the other hand, it cannot be ruled out either.
The current figures allow a wide variety of options.
A coalition of the Union, the Greens and the FDP is mathematically just as possible as an alliance of the Union, SPD and FDP.
But also a traffic light coalition in which, as things stand, a Chancellor Baerbock would lead the government.
This is one of the reasons why Söder continues to focus on the Greens.
Her policy shows “a narrowing to her classic clientele.
They pay too little attention to the fact that sustainability and prosperity have to be brought together. "
CDU / CSU: Union election program is taking shape - adoption next week
What could be expected from the Union in terms of content in the next four years has so far been difficult to say, if only because there is still no official election manifesto. Next Sunday and Monday, the party leaders want to adopt it at a retreat in Berlin. A draft that our newspaper has received includes, among other things, a pension reform that provides for higher discounts for early retirement. On the other hand, those who only retire after the current age of 67 should receive more money from the state.
An initiative is aimed at low-wage earners, according to which companies must in future offer them a company pension, financed by companies, employees and the state.
According to the plans, people who care for relatives should be able to easily increase their salaries even after they retire.
So far, they had to apply for a partial pension in a complicated way.
The income limit for mini-jobs is to rise from 450 euros to 550 euros per month, the top tax rate of 42 percent will only take effect much later in the future.
It is currently valid from around EUR 58,000 gross income per year.
SPD General Secretary Lars Klingbeil calls the CDU and CSU the “main opponent”.
Above all, he is looking for the votes of those citizens who have so far made their mark on the Union because of Angela Merkel.
This is where the SPD's chance lies: "They are not classic CDU voters."
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