TV-Triell: Armin Laschet is swimming in the Union's parade discipline

Armin Laschet (CDU) went into the first TV triall as the Union's candidate for chancellor.

He had to prove himself against Annalena Baerbock and Olaf Scholz - and revealed a knowledge gap.

Munich - Armin Laschet * (CDU), Annalena Baerbock (Greens) and Olaf Scholz (SPD) worked for almost two hours in the first TV triall *.

And yet it was only a brief statement that many viewers should remember.

"You are now tangled up, you are welcome to admit that," advised Olaf Scholz to the Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet.

Ironically, the CDU politician revealed a lack of knowledge on the subject of internal security, which Olaf Scholz pounced on.

TV-Triell: Armin Laschet is not sure when it comes to data retention

The Chancellor candidates discussed a little more than an hour before the moderators Peter Kloeppel and Pinar Atalay steered the discussion to the topic of security. In the

three-way battle broadcast

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presenter Peter Kloeppel showed

a current Forsa survey, according to which 50 percent of women felt the most unsafe at train stations and bus stops. In this context, Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet called for broader video surveillance at crime spots.

But even in the fight against crime on the Internet, the CDU politician called for means to combat it, such as child pornography.

Laschet brought up data retention;

Scholz countered immediately.

The data retention has been decided, counters Scholz coolly.

Only legal proceedings would prevent immediate implementation.

TV-Triell: "You got tangled up now" - Scholz snubbed Laschet

"You are now tangled up, you can admit that," he advised Laschet. Laschet's demand for data retention also caused astonishment on the Internet. SPD health politician Karl Lauterbach * called the CDU politician's initiative on Twitter “amazing”. The issue of internal security was once a “focus of the Union”, explained Lauterbach. Annalena Baerbock referred in the thematic block to the accumulated overtime of police officers and called for funds to be made available for the judiciary and the police. (

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