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Broadside: SPD man Scholz lets Merkel criticism ricochet - and is already campaigning for coalition partners

2021-09-01T19:06:20.558Z


Angela Merkel suddenly hands out against Olaf Scholz in the election campaign for the 2021 federal election. The SPD chancellor candidate is now responding. And not only that.


Angela Merkel suddenly hands out against Olaf Scholz in the election campaign for the 2021 federal election.

The SPD chancellor candidate is now responding.

And not only that.

Munich / Berlin - Austria's Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (ÖVP) came to Berlin from Vienna for a farewell visit.

The Austrian head of government also had a present - a lifetime invitation to the Salzburg Festival.

Everything would have been so harmonious if the German (still) Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) had not used the date on Tuesday (August 31) to broadside her deputy in the GroKo, SPD Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz.

Federal election 2021: Olaf Scholz (SPD) lets criticism from Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) rebound

"In this context, there is simply a huge difference for the future of Germany between him and me," Merkel said: "With me as Chancellor, there would never be a coalition with the left." You, who have been so far so vehemently kept out of the election campaign for the 2021 federal election, intervened after all. After all, the union of the CDU and CSU with Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet really got off the ground in the polls.

One day later, Scholz reacted calmly to the Chancellor's message.

The statement did not surprise him, "as a former federal chairman of the CDU you should give this answer," said the 63-year-old Lower Saxony the SWR.

Nevertheless, he continues to work well with the Chancellor, affirmed the man who will replace her in the Chancellery in Berlin soon after the general election on September 26th.

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The CDU and CSU hold the SPD up to seek a red-red-green coalition in possible exploratory talks.

So not just with the Greens around their Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock.

But also with the left, which wants Germany to leave the transatlantic defense alliance NATO.

And the last recommended abstention in parliament when the German Bundestag subsequently approved the rescue mission of the Bundeswehr in Afghanistan.

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In the first TV triall of the chancellor candidates on RTL / n-tv, Scholz had repeatedly evaded the question of whether he, as a possible head of government, would also enter into a coalition with the left. The SPD candidate for chancellor now told the SWR that he insists on a good partnership with the USA in any coalition and that he wants to strengthen NATO. Meanwhile, he openly advertised other possible coalition partners. Probably also because of the good polls for the federal election in 2021 from the point of view of the SPD. He could imagine working with the Greens, explained Scholz in the SWR, but also with the FDP around their party leader Christian Lindner.

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Source: merkur

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