There was a lot of argument in the second triell.
Annalena Baerbock was fair - and straddled in the middle of a moderation.
Berlin - The Triellanten cracked hard on Sunday evening on ARD and ZDF: Olaf Scholz (SPD) and Armin Laschet (CDU) accused each other of false presentations.
Green chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock also got in the way at least once: She saw Laschet on the wrong track with the warning of tax evasion by large companies due to higher income taxes.
Elsewhere, the Green was emphatically fair - but interrupted the moderation of hosts Maybrit Illner and Oliver Köhr in the middle of the Triell.
Triell: Baerbock interrupts Illner - and points out mistakes at Scholz's expense
“If I may say that in fairness: Mr Scholz's clock continues to run,” Baerbock warned the organizers.
Illner had no choice but to admit the problem after a brief moment of shock.
Apparently there was a technical problem with speaking time, she admitted.
"It's not possible for it to continue," she added.
The measures were then taken in the background.
At the next interim conclusion, Illner and Köhr assured that the times had been corrected.
In the end, however, the candidates did not come out quite evenly in terms of speaking time.
The result should not be based on the minute difference between the participants in the debate anyway.
A first quick poll saw Scholz again as the winner of the round.
It remains to be seen whether this opinion will be the next pointer before the federal election.
ARD / ZDF-Triell: Another incident in the chancellor candidate round - broadcasters declare "Kracher"
Another curiosity of the round: A few minutes after the broadcast started, a noise was heard. Baerbock, who was speaking at that moment, interrupted her speech and said with a smile: “Huppala, the studio is already collapsing.” When asked, ZDF said something had fallen over in the corridor behind the studio. (
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