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"In Landshut"? Double flop in Laschet's big speech - mistakes provoke new malice

2021-08-23T08:26:08.719Z


At the “election campaign start”, Armin Laschet and the Union wanted to turn things around at the weekend. But there is ridicule for two mistakes.


At the “election campaign start”, Armin Laschet and the Union wanted to turn things around at the weekend.

But there is ridicule for two mistakes.

Berlin - One word too many can make a big difference in politics - just like one sentence too little.

Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet has to endure a large portion of ridicule after the election campaign kicked off by the CDU and CSU at the weekend.

At least indirectly in the center: Lower Bavaria's capital Landshut.

Armin Laschet: “Landshut” in focus - CDU chancellor candidate receives ridicule for slip of the tongue

At the end of the week, to the amusement of many observers, Laschet failed in an interview during the “spontaneous” search for a third main political goal.

In his election speech in Berlin, he now unnecessarily put the word “in” - and as a result had to cast doubt on his competence.

In his address, the CDU chief had stated that the Federal Police special unit GSG9 had "

freed

Germans from the hijacked Lufthansa plane

in

Landshut"

in the autumn of 1977

.

At the time, however, “Landshut” was the name of the aircraft, not the scene of the action.

The hostages were released in a spectacular operation in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.

Laschet: "Landshut is not in Somalia" - CDU chief also makes mistakes when it comes to the Bundeswehr

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Armin Laschet next to Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Union election campaign on Saturday.

© John Macdougall / AFP

On the net, Laschet was then assumed not to know any better.

The Green Member of the Bundestag Canan Bayram wrote on Twitter: "No, Landshut is not in Somalia, dear Union, and yes, you didn't want a perfect man, you wanted Armin".

Others echoed Laschet's statement and added tearful smileys.

The CDU boss also earned ridicule for speaking about the fact that the Bundeswehr was now in action with Transall machines.

However, she has since retired and is now flying her evacuation flights from Afghanistan with the Airbus A400M.

The previous federal election campaign was largely determined by personal mistakes by the candidates - for example Laschet's laugh on the edge of a statement by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier about the flood disaster or mistakes in the CV of Green Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock.

It is often complained that there is a lack of substantive discussion.

Baerbock completed her ARD “summer interview” on Sunday, however, with almost no mistake - only in a quick question round did the Greens fail to answer a more personal question.

After waiting for a few seconds, the moderator Tina Hassel went on to the next question.

(

fn / dpa

)

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Source: merkur

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