Six weeks before the election, the election campaign enters the hot phase.
Armin Laschet warns of a traffic light coalition - and tries to win over the liberals.
Meanwhile, Olaf Scholz sneaks step by step towards the Chancellery.
Munich -
It almost works as agreed. Armin Laschet (CDU) in the Konrad-Adenauer-Haus, Christian Lindner (FDP) in the Hans-Dietrich-Genscher-Haus, both party leaders were in front of the cameras in their federal offices in Berlin yesterday, just 850 meters apart. They go public with the same message: The new federal government must strengthen the German economy and secure prosperity. This is the top priority for the next few years after the pandemic. That is the basis for possible coalition talks.
Six weeks until the federal election.
The current survey results show: Every result is open.
The INSA institute suddenly sees the SPD with 20 percent in front of the Greens (18 percent), the Union parties have slipped to 25 percent.
"There is now a very great risk that there can be a majority outside the Union," said Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) on Sunday evening on "Bild Live".
"That must be clear to everyone."
How Laschet ensnared the liberals
Swipe for Armin Laschet. The accusation is clear: the election campaign of the chancellor candidate is not tough enough. Laschet could not hide the uncertainty that Söder could be right yesterday in the Konrad-Adenauer-Haus. “I don't think this traffic light variant is out of the question,” he admits. But one would have to “ask Mr. Lindner” whether he would be willing to do so. “All parties to the left of the Union say we have to raise taxes and we need new burdens on the economy. Our answer is the opposite. ”The economy could also flourish“ without tax increases ”and“ with adherence to the debt brake ”.
One might think that this election promise is aimed more at the FDP than at the voters themselves.
Just an hour and a half beforehand, Christian Lindner said in the Hans-Dietrich-Genscher-Haus: “We have two guard rails for future policy: no tax increases, no loosening of the debt brake.
We only speak to those who accept these two guard rails. ”That is also“ non-negotiable ”.
Scholz is currently the most popular candidate
It is the start of the hot election campaign phase.
For a long time, the Greens, with Annalena Baerbock as candidate for chancellor, were the only serious competition for the Union.
Both Baerbock and Laschet have made themselves less and less popular in recent weeks: After the cheating in Baerbock's Vita, the plagiarism in her book and Laschet's public giggles in the flood areas, the polls of the Chancellor candidates have fallen rapidly.
According to the ZDF Politbarometer, only 21 percent of voters see Laschet as suitable for the Chancellery.
At Baerbock it is 16 percent.
Olaf Scholz, on the other hand, has taken a quiet step ahead of the game: 44 percent of those surveyed would prefer to see the SPD candidate as Federal Chancellor.
Even Friedrich Merz reprimands Laschet's election campaign
"That's a nice message that the polls are getting better," said Scholz on Saturday in Bochum - and called on his party to convince many more people.
“Another federal government led by the CDU and CSU will cost Germany prosperity, jobs and the future,” he warned.
On Saturday evening, Friedrich Merz stood next to Armin Laschet as a representative of the Sauerland CDU in Olpe and praised the CDU candidate for chancellor for the fact that he finally presented himself "very militantly" in the election campaign.
"I was really happy about that," said Merz.
"To put it a little more quietly: That was also necessary." Another swipe for Armin Laschet.
(with dpa)
