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As finance minister, Christian Lindner wants to campaign for compliance with the debt brake (archive image)
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FDP leader Christian Lindner has criticized the course of Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet.
In view of the past few weeks, he doubted that Armin Laschet would have the manager to reject the Greens' concerns about "redistribution, paternalism and subsidization."
"Since the CDU offers nothing in terms of content, we stand solely for economic reason."
Lindner advised the Union to stop the attacks on the Liberals.
It is advisable that the Union "would concern itself less with its reliable coalition partner in North Rhine-Westphalia, but more with the Greens."
In the event that he should take over the post of finance minister after the federal election, Lindner campaigned for compliance with the debt brake: “We have enormous debts.
We already have inflation risks.
We have artificially low interest rates.
The debt brake of the Basic Law must therefore not be relaxed, as Greens and Markus Söder want.
We have to get back to solid finances. "
Bundestag election as a vote on Maas and Kramp-Karrenbauer
With regard to the Afghanistan mission and the delayed evacuation of German citizens and local staff, the FDP leader has called for an investigative committee.
"In the next legislative period we need a committee of inquiry into Afghanistan, where everything comes on the table that did not work," said Linder of "Bild am Sonntag".
The BND's misjudgment of the situation in Afghanistan must also have consequences, said Lindner.
If necessary, the BND would have to be reorganized.
The deployment in Afghanistan is also an important topic for the federal election: “The events documented a terrifying helplessness.
The federal election is therefore also a vote on whether Mr. Maas and Ms. Kramp-Karrenbauer should continue their work. "
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