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TV series and gender star - Laschet talks about private matters

2021-07-08T06:03:02.191Z


Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet shared a few private details on “Brigitte live”. But there were no new political insights.


Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet shared a few private details on “Brigitte live”.

But there were no new political insights.

Berlin - Politically nothing surprising, but some amusing details from private life - Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet performed his appearance in the series of talks "Brigitte live" routinely and easily.

The CDU chairman presented himself as a fan of television series, personally rejected gendering in the language without demonizing it as a whole, and considered himself an acceptable father despite his limited time for family life. Politically, he rejected a word of power in the direction of the CDU constituency candidate Hans-Georg Maaßen and campaigned for a fair election campaign.

In a dark suit with a white shirt and no tie, North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister chatted casually about private matters. The 60-year-old known, sometimes all night long to watch TV series in the media libraries. “Then my wife always despairs because she says you have to sleep now. And then I sit there until 3 or 4 o'clock and watch these series. ”It is an advantage that he can get by with little sleep. His wife would not keep him company. “She also watches series, but at civil times. Most of the time I watch alone. "

Laschet named improving equality for women as a priority if he were to win the election. And what about his private life in this regard? “I have experienced different phases in my own marriage.” At the very beginning, when his wife was already working and he was still a student, he took care of the “household things”. "The more you took on political responsibility, the less I had time to really look after the children every day - but I would still say that I was a father who was there when it was important."

Laschet thinks little of gender in language - at least for himself. “To always speak the gender star now, in any case, does not go with my style of language.

But whoever does that is okay, you can do it, you don't have to prohibit, you can have respect for, only my language is different. "

Laschet rejected the question of a power word in the direction of Maaßen.

“What does a power word mean?” He replied.

He said: "This is my position, which I will enforce as Chancellor, the position of the CDU is clear, and whoever gives any interviews is his problem, at least it is not the position of the CDU." Laschet took the name Do not measure in your mouth - a behavior that politicians actually display towards opponents during election campaigns.

"I just don't intend to add value to every comment he makes over the next few weeks by positioning myself against it," Laschet emphasized.

One shouldn't let the topics be determined every week.

"I think we have other topics in Germany at the moment than those that the candidate mentioned."

The former President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution is a direct candidate for the CDU in a constituency in Thuringia.

He had recently caused outrage because he accused the public service media of tendentious reporting.

There is a "clear left twist," he told the broadcaster tv.Berlin.

He later made it clear on Twitter that freedom of the press and broadcasting freedom in Germany had constitutional status.

Laschet emphasized that the Union's position on public broadcasting was crystal clear.

“At a time like now, when there is so much fake news about the pandemic, strong public service broadcasting is important.

That is the position of the entire CDU. "

When asked about the so far "mild election campaign", Laschet replied: "I think we are conducting a factual, controversial election campaign, but we do not poison the climate, so that everyone who has to govern afterwards has a very difficult time reconciling society." There are already "some outliers", but he sees the will for fairness in the leadership of the other parties.

dpa

Source: merkur

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