After the numerous debates about the Greens, the CDU is again causing scandal and is receiving a lot of criticism.
The fight for the chancellorship will be more exciting again.
Munich - In the past few days, allegations of plagiarism against Annalena Baerbocks have shaped the election campaign in Germany.
This also caused the Greens to crash in the polls and set a new high for the Union.
The distance between the parties grew more and more.
CDU causes the next scandal after mask affairs - Laschet agrees in the state parliament AfD
But now the CDU is making the election campaign increasingly difficult again. The conservatives had recovered after the mask affair, which caused the polls to plummet at the beginning of the year. While the Greens made mistakes, they could sit back. Now, however, two debates on the right-hand side are causing headaches for Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet. He is even responsible for one of them.
The CDU boss caused outrage in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia on Friday (July 2) because he agreed to the AfD in a statement about Corona.
In a debate about the dissolution of the Corona Expert Council, AfD MP Martin Vincentz said, according to
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: “Science, as it is often called today, simply doesn't exist.” Science is always “a multitude of different voices”.
Laschet's statement afterwards: "I rarely, actually never, agree with the AfD.
You said a true sentence today: Whenever someone arrives and says 'science says', you are wisely advised to question what he is up to ... “Because in science there are always minor or individual opinions .
Scientific discourse is therefore important.
Lauterbach shoots against the CDU candidate for chancellor, according to Laschet
SPD health expert Klar Lauterbach shot sharply against Laschet after this scandal on Twitter: “What Armin Laschet says here is doubly terrible.
The AfD should never be approved in public, especially not in a state parliament.
Second, we will not cope with climate change without trust and respect for science. "
The Maassen attack on the press generated plenty of criticism
The second debate that weighs on the high of the Union are the attacks by the controversial CDU Bundestag candidate Hans-Georg Maassen against the press.
In an interview, Maaßen had called for a character test of journalists on the public service broadcaster, as editors were allegedly connected to left-wing radicals.
CDU boss Laschet has so far remained silent.
SPD General Secretary Lars Klingbeil has now sharply criticized Laschet's silence.
"Another anti-democratic failure of CDU Bundestag candidate Hans-Georg Maaßen, once again CDU boss Armin Laschet is silent," Klingbeil told the Berliner
Tagesspiegel
on Monday.
The impression is slowly emerging that Maassen's behavior is not only tolerated by Laschet, but is wanted.
The Greens are now also opening fire against their rivals for the Chancellery.
"Armin Laschet's silence on this CDU candidate for the next federal election is unbearable," said Anton Hofreiter of the
NOZ
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“Laschet is making grazing on the right-hand side acceptable within his party.
That is a dangerous game with fire. "
CDU scandal creates a new picture in surveys
And criticism is also voiced from within the own party.
The chairman of the CDU regional association Hamburg, Christoph Ploß, said in the "Bild" broadcast "The right questions" that the statements of his party colleague were unacceptable.
Conclusions as to whether Maassen could remain a candidate for the CDU in the Bundestag "must be drawn by the colleagues from the CDU Thuringia".
The two derailments of the CDU are also directly noticeable in the surveys. In the INSA survey of July 4, the Union only came to 28 percent, in other surveys the CDU / CSU were last at 30 percent. But the beneficiaries are not the Greens, who also fall in favor of the electorate and only come in at 18 percent, but the SPD, who have hope of second place again with 17 percent.
(md with AFP)
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