Anyone who has been vaccinated, tested or recovered should be able to participate in life everywhere.
Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet wants to stick to "3-G".
However, not with free corona tests.
Düsseldorf - "You will notice it when you vote": When NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet recently visited the flood victims in his state, he was also met with a good deal of frustration.
His poll numbers are bobbing.
The
BamS
now
wanted to
know from the CDU politician
whether the “hard-hitting speeches” in the federal election campaign will finally come soon
.
Union chancellor candidate and father Laschet insists: the flood victims first.
Laschet wants to appoint a special representative for flood relief for North Rhine-Westphalia, "an experienced practitioner".
SPD Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz opposes this idea and wants "unbureaucratic" solutions.
"Some of those affected showed me thankfully on their bank app that our unbureaucratic emergency aid is already on the account," emphasized Laschet in the
BamS
interview.
"Then the election campaign is announced - with a clear profile of the Union."
Federal election 2021: CDU and CSU divided on tax relief
This is actually fuzzy in some places at the moment.
The statements of CDU boss Laschet and CSU boss Markus Söder on the subject of taxes, for example, are contradictory.
Söder called the implementation of tax cuts "a question of credibility".
In the
BamS
interview, however,
Laschet again restricts
: “Relieving the burden on citizens is the right thing to do!
And we will do it as soon as it is financially possible. "
The Union agrees, however, that tax increases, as demanded by the SPD, the Greens and the Left, are "poison" and slow down the economy.
With the CDU and CSU, “many families would have more net than with the Greens,” promises Laschet.
Before MPK with Merkel: Latch for the end of free corona tests
What does he expect from the Prime Minister's Conference with Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) on August 10th?
A "comprehensive reconstruction for the flood areas - immediately, in solidarity and safe for the next few years".
An important topic, but not the only one: The corona incidence in Germany is rising again, the vaccination campaign is stagnating.
The debate about freedoms for vaccinated people and restrictions for unvaccinated people is therefore bitter.
In the interview, Laschet now advocates not discriminating against unvaccinated people with negative tests - but made it unmistakably clear: From autumn onwards, the state should no longer pay for the corona tests "if everyone has had the chance of complete vaccination protection" .
So if you want to go to the restaurant, you have to pay for it yourself.
Laschet left it open whether he meant “autumn” before or after the federal elections on September 26th.
Laschet zu Greens to Baerbock: "Underestimating electricity needs in Germany"
The flood disasters in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate have brutally brought climate change into consciousness.
Laschet asserts that climate protection is the "greatest challenge of our time", but not without a swipe at his challenger for the Chancellery, Annalena Baerbock: "The Greens underestimate Germany as an industrial location in terms of its efficiency, but also with its electricity needs."
So the accusation: The eco-party is not creating the energy transition in a socially acceptable and economically sustainable manner. “I know what structural change means in concrete terms,” Laschet advertises. The Union Chancellor candidate is criticized when it comes to climate protection because he not only rejects bringing forward the coal phase-out, but has not yet commented on additional measures to achieve the more stringent German and European emission targets.
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