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FDP chairman Lindner: Black and yellow ice age
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A good five weeks before the federal elections, the CDU leaders attack the FDP.
"In this election, the FDP is no guarantee for a middle-class government," said CDU General Secretary Paul Ziemiak to SPIEGEL.
"Whoever votes for the FDP has to accept that in the end he will wake up at the cabinet table with Saskia Esken and Kevin Kühnert."
The deputy party leader Julia Klöckner said: »The strategy of Christian Lindner and the FDP is clear.
They want to lull our voters by telling everyone that Armin Laschet is already safe in the Chancellery.
It is obvious: if you don't want green-red, you can't vote for the FDP, you have to strengthen black. ”CDU board member Christian Baldauf also questioned the reliability of the FDP.
"I warn against underestimating the possibility of a traffic light," he said.
"For the CDU that would be the most unfavorable government coalition."
FDP shoots back
The FDP reacted sharply to the Union's attacks. The parliamentary manager of the FDP parliamentary group accused the CDU and CSU of having lost their bearings. "There is evidently panic or political disorientation in the Union," said Buschmann. »We want less taxes, less bureaucracy and solid finances. If the Union believes that it cannot make us a better offer than the SPD, then the social democratization of the Union must be even worse than expected. "
The Union has recently slipped sharply in surveys.
In the new Germany trend, it still comes to 23 percent, a lead of only two points over the Social Democrats.
The CDU leadership will meet in Berlin on Saturday to officially launch the election campaign.
Appearances are planned by Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet, CSU boss Markus Söder and Chancellor Angela Merkel.
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