At the Chancellor Triell, the Chancellor candidates also discussed the issue of Afghanistan.
Chancellor Merkel criticized the Greens for their stance.
Berlin - On Sunday evening, the Chancellor candidates from the Union, SPD and Greens met for the first of three Chancellor triumphs.
The current situation in Afghanistan was one of the hot topics of discussion.
Annalena Baerbock in particular criticized the federal government.
On Monday (August 30), Chancellor Angela Merkel returned the favor at a CDU presidium meeting.
On the broadcasters RTL and ntv, Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet, Vice Chancellor and SPD Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz and Green Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock exchanged blows on current issues - including the situation in Afghanistan and its consequences for federal politics.
Baerbock speaks of “disaster with announcement” - and for this reaps criticism from Merkel
With a view to Afghanistan, Annalena Baerbock spoke of a "disaster with an announcement".
She accused the Union of only now coming up with pressing Afghanistan issues that the Greens had been asking themselves for a long time.
Baerbock referred to the fate of numerous children and families in Afghanistan and chalked the government to hide from foreign policy problems.
Merkel, on the other hand, criticized the Greens for their stance on the withdrawal of the Bundeswehr from Afghanistan, as the German press agency learned from presidium circles.
The Greens had shown in the first major TV triall of the Chancellor candidates on Sunday evening that they had "no clear stance" on this issue, said Merkel.
While Armin Laschet and Olaf Scholz spoke out in the TV trilogy for better equipment for the Bundeswehr in view of the crisis in Afghanistan, Baerbock pleaded above all for a more active foreign policy.
The Chancellor candidate criticized the fact that the government under Chancellor Merkel had "ducked away" for sixteen years and placed "domestic political motives above foreign policy responsibility" in Afghanistan.
Merkel praises the Bundeswehr's work in Kabul as "heroic"
Chancellor Merkel, on the other hand, praised the deployment of the Bundeswehr in Kabul, as the AFP news agency learned from participants in the meeting. The commitment of the German soldiers there was "heroic", said Merkel. The Chancellor spoke of an "oppressive situation" in Afghanistan after the radical Islamic Taliban came to power.
