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Election posters for the federal election: In purely mathematical terms, a red-red-green alliance is a realistic option, but there are great reservations
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Union Chancellor candidate Laschet to talk to President Macron
06:27:
Around two and a half weeks before the federal election, French President Emmanuel Macron receives the Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet (CDU) for a bilateral meeting.
On Monday, Vice Chancellor and SPD candidate for Chancellor Olaf Scholz was a guest at Macron in the Élysée Palace.
North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Laschet is officially traveling to Paris in his capacity as Franco-German cultural representative.
Macron and Laschet have met several times, but the bilateral meeting on Wednesday is the first since Laschet was nominated as candidate for chancellor of the Union.
Green candidate Annalena Baerbock, on the other hand, did not visit Macron before the election.
Majority for citizen insurance in health insurance
05.53 a.m.:
According to a survey, a clear majority of citizens are in favor of giving up the separation of statutory and private health insurance in favor of so-called citizens' insurance for everyone.
69 percent of the 1337 respondents found the introduction of citizens' insurance "good" or even "very good," according to the survey published on Wednesday by Infratest-dimap on behalf of the ARD magazine "Monitor".
In their election manifestos, the SPD, the Greens and the Left speak out in favor of citizens' insurance - the Union and FDP, on the other hand, want to keep the current system in principle.
However, even among the supporters of Union (68 percent) and FDP (62 percent), a clear majority of those surveyed are in favor of introducing citizens' insurance.
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