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Söder vs. Habeck: duel of the party leaders - Greens boss on attack - Söder defends Bavaria

2021-08-28T20:45:06.211Z


While Armin Laschet, Annalena Baerbock and Olaf Scholz fight for the Chancellery, the second-placed Markus Söder and Robert Habeck continue to express their opinions.


While Armin Laschet, Annalena Baerbock and Olaf Scholz fight for the Chancellery, the second-placed Markus Söder and Robert Habeck continue to express their opinions.

Update from August 28, 9:37 p.m.:

The conversation began with the major crises in the world - with Afghanistan and the climate. While Habeck described the mission as a “military failure - to the chagrin of all soldiers”, Söder judged the situation a little more sympathetically: “It did not fail completely, the end was bad. We have given a whole generation of young people new hopes and have protected against terrorism for 20 years, that was the core task. ”Both politicians called for a reappraisal of the operation and also wanted a“ value-based realism ”for the future.

When it came to the topic of climate, it got a bit louder. Habeck criticized Bavarian politics for focusing too much on electricity imports than on own production: "I could explain to you how it works, even better than in Bavaria," said Habeck in the direction of the Bavarian Prime Minister. Söder, on the other hand, emphasized that Bavaria wants to become climate neutral by 2040 - “faster than others.” Even the federal government does not come off well in the assessment of the Greens boss. This would only have achieved the climate protection goals because of the pandemic: "If you need one crisis to fight another, you've done everything wrong."

With regard to the Corona crisis, both party leaders in Germany gave a good report: "We have saved an incredible number of lives and protected our country well in this extreme exceptional situation," said Söder. He was concerned about the radicalization tendencies among vaccination opponents and corona deniers.

Update from August 28, 7:14 p.m.:

As

Der Spiegel

reports on the pre-recorded debate, there are many points of contention and similarities between Söder and Habeck. Both party leaders recognize the need for a Bundeswehr - also with a view to Afghanistan. When it came to finances and the debt brake, the agreement was over again. Accordingly, Habeck accused the Union of having forgotten how to calculate. The Union could not explain how the requested relief should be financed. Söder, on the other hand, warned of a financial destabilization of the country by the political plans of the Greens, which do not rule out debt.

In addition, the Bavarian Prime Minister and the Federal Chairman of the Greens also discussed threats from the lateral thinker scene, Germany's corona balance sheet and future climate and housing policy in the one-and-a-half-hour broadcast.

The broadcast of the dispute begins at 8 p.m.

Election campaign debate of the hearts: Söder and Habeck in a duel

First report from 08/28:

Berlin - “The only true election campaign

debate

” - that's the title of

Der Spiegel

,

t-online

and

Vice

the dispute they organized on Saturday evening (08/28/2021) between two politicians who will not even stand for election for the office of Chancellor.

CSU boss Markus Söder and Greens boss Robert Habeck would have both wanted it, but they had to give way.

Apparently it was a little easier for the federal chairman of the Greens than for the Bavarian Prime Minister.

While the Greens quietly brought the decision in favor of their candidate for Chancellor Annalena Baerbock over the backstage, it took a while for the Union to reach an agreement on Armin Laschet.

If you look at some surveys, these could have been the wrong decisions.

Söder and Habeck: Better than Laschet and Baerbock?

On August 25, a Civey poll was published by the

Augsburger Allgemeine

. As a result, a full 70 percent of the Union support a change of the chancellor candidate - one month before the federal election on September 26th. According to the survey, only 23 percent support Armin Laschet's candidacy. Before that, another Civey poll in an earlier edition of the

Augsburger Allgemeine

had already taken place

(June 3rd) for riot. This time with the Greens. Accordingly, 61 percent of those surveyed were of the opinion that the Greens had also made the wrong decision - only 24 percent believed Baerbock's candidacy for chancellor was correct. The duel between Söder and Habeck will therefore also be a competition to see which leader of his party could back up his back so shortly before the general election. Both parties need it.

According to the t-online index, the polls plummeted for both the Union and the Greens.

Only the SPD was able to record an upswing compared to spring.

The t-online index shows the average of the five most recently published Sunday questions.

Accordingly, the Union has recorded a minus of over ten percent since the beginning of the year - from an average of 36 to 22 percent.

The spring high of the Greens (26 percent) has meanwhile turned into a low (18 percent).

The SPD around Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz, on the other hand, was able to catch up by a few points and is currently almost on a par with the Union.

Discussion as a decision-making aid: Söder vs. Habeck

Markus Söder and Robert Habeck appeared again and again in public with strong opinions even after their candidacy for non-chancellor was announced. Most recently, they both made different demands on the federal government regarding the situation in Afghanistan. The debate in the evening will be about climate change, social justice, the corona crisis and Germany's military role in the world. Melanie Amann from the

Spiegel

editor-in-chief described the duel in advance as a "decision-making aid for all voters who want orientation and clear points of view in this election campaign on minor issues."

(Leb)

Source: merkur

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