In “Markus Lanz” women's rights activist Zarifa Ghafari reports relentlessly about Afghanistan.
Your descriptions are drastic.
“Markus Lanz” is dedicated to the Bundestag election campaign on Thursday evening at the beginning. The parliamentary manager of the FDP, Marco Buschmann, has a clear opinion at least on the first TV triad of the chancellor candidates: “This triad is a farce even as a format. We don't elect a chancellor in Germany, we elect parties to the Bundestag. And then sometime in the 1960s these presidential duels were copied, even though it didn't fit into our political system. "
Buschmann sees his FDP in close contact with the three parties represented in the Triell and thinks that the debate would have benefited from the presence of Christian Lindner (FDP).
"I believe that this format has not kept what was promised to people, namely that one learns about the big issues, the plans of the parties." From Buschmann's point of view, the discussion was too banal, there were no substantive differences between the parties have come into their own.
Federal election campaign 2021 for "Markus Lanz": FDP relies on hard CO2 caps and the forces of the market
Buschmann, on the other hand, makes his own proposal: "Let's work with a different system instead of continuing to work with one system that we all know does not work."
A “hard CO2 cap” should be introduced: “This amount of CO2, which we limit, can then be traded using certificates and that sets an innovation process in motion.”
The journalist Kristina Dunz digs in between: “If Mr Lindner hadn't said in 2017, 'It is better not to govern than to govern wrongly', then you would have been able to implement a lot of it.
And I am very curious to see how you will react after this election, if that is so important to you. "
“Let me just say one thing,” says Buschmann, “because you have just pronounced a big sentence so calmly.
You said we could all have done that.
We made the decision because we didn't get this promise. ”Talk host Lanz asked in astonishment whether Buschmann tried to explain that the 2017 coalition negotiations failed because of climate protection.
Christian Lindner either finance minister or nothing?
FDP strategist Buschmann builds up pressure
“We got up,” he sums up the failure of the talks at the time, “because Angela Merkel was not ready to make a signature of the FDP recognizable.
And there were many topics. "
According to Buschmann's ideas, that should change in 2021, which is why he defends Christian Lindner's flirt with the Ministry of Finance.
When Lanz asks whether the FDP is even making the office of finance minister a condition for a coalition, Buschmann says: “Yes, that's the idea we have.
We want to leave our signature there. ”The FDP also benefits from the current political landscape in Germany:“ If you don't want to bring radicals into the government, like the AfD or the Left Party, you will have to speak to the FDP. ”
"Markus Lanz" - these were his guests on September 2nd:
Marco Buschmann (FDP) - politician
Kristina Dunz - journalist
Zarifa Ghafari - women's rights activist
Alexander Kekulé - epidemiologist
In the second part of the program, epidemiologist Alexander Kekulé first comments on the "silent infection of children" with Covid-19, as SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach recently summarized the current corona situation.
“I find that people don't talk about it,” says Kekulé, complaining that both restrictive protective and easing measures are not adequately justified.
“We are now giving the adults liberties, there are even discos that are reopening and so on and so on.
We let people come back from vacation, untested.
And the only ones who get it right are of course those under 18. "
Alexander Kekulé warns "Markus Lanz": The 2G regulation is based on a wrong assumption
Kekulé calls for an open discussion about what would happen if you let the incidence run. In his view, the increasing incidence inevitably leads to renewed school closings, and that 30,000 children are currently in quarantine in North Rhine-Westphalia, he describes as there is no alternative: "Because you don't get an expert who says that this virus never causes any damage to under 18-year-olds Kekulé thinks little of the 2G model in Hamburg: "The problem is that a high percentage of the vaccinated adults can still pass the virus on."
The Berlin administrative court based its judgment on dance bans on a false statement by the Robert Koch Institute, explains Kekulé: “On the website of the Robert Koch Institute it says, and the court cites it, that the vaccinated and the convalescents no longer contributed significantly to the epidemic would afford.
A complete false statement. ”Data from the USA, England and Israel over the past few months would rather show that this is not the case.
“Markus Lanz” looks at Afghanistan: Ex-Mayor Zarifa Ghafari fled to Germany
The women's rights activist Zarifa Ghafari reports on the situation in Afghanistan at the end of the program. As the country's youngest female mayor, she was a symbol of the new Afghanistan that was now collapsing. It is now a question of “what the reality on the ground is”: “They are the Taliban. They are there and they won't go away anytime soon. There will be no one who can drive them away. And instead of looking for someone to blame now, it is better to talk about what we can do next. "
Weeping, she remembers getting on the plane and saying goodbye to Afghanistan: “When I left my country, it felt like I left myself there and only took my body with me.
I was ready to sacrifice my life for my country. "Ghafari's unbroken optimism is moving:" We will try to start all over again.
And I'm sure we can do it.
We are stronger than these conflicts, than this war. "
“Markus Lanz” - the conclusion of the show
Buschmann (FDP) presented the position of his party in a dialogue with talk show host Lanz. This also included the once again aggressively formulated claim to the Federal Ministry of Finance and the rejection of tax increases. Kekulé urges caution in the current handling of Covid, predicts school closings in the fall and criticizes the Hamburg 2G model. The Afghan women's rights activist Zarifa Ghafari stayed the last 20 minutes of the program to report on her poignant fate as the youngest female mayor of Afghanistan and on her flight.