Armin Laschet and Olaf Scholz faced two children's reporters on ProSieben.
In some places the questions were obviously trickier than with the TV trialles.
Berlin - First the triumph, then tough questions from two eleven-year-old child reporters: The Chancellor candidates from Union and SPD, Armin Laschet and Olaf Scholz, were put to the next tough test - each for themselves - in a TV show broadcast on Tuesday.
Pauline and Romeo had the floor in the ProSieben program “Late Night Berlin” with Klaas Heufer-Umlauf.
They turned out to be unyielding interviewers who only asked seemingly naive questions, but sometimes interrupted them to stubbornly dig deeper.
In the social networks, the two young reporters were celebrated for the ten-minute clips.
Next week, the interview with the top candidate of the Greens, Annalena Baerbock, will be broadcast on “Late Night Berlin”.
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Pauline and Romeo already have experience with interviews. For example, you have already posed problems for some rappers - for example, with the question of why they drive big cars. So now, shortly before the general election, the politicians. They settled down on a small children's chair in a tent furnished with cuddly toys - and should then discuss topics such as the flood in North Rhine-Westphalia, migration, the Navalny case, the Wirecard scandal, gay marriage, the mask affair or the Hambacher Forest expressions, but also on "soft topics".
When asked if he wanted to stop smoking cigarillos, Laschet replied: “I don't smoke them on my lungs.” Then it came to the Hambach Forest and the court decision that the evacuation of the tree houses was illegal. Laschet said it was not against the law. There is still a higher court that has to look again. Then Romeo said: "Is the judgment lying?"
Another topic for Laschet was the controversial Thuringian CDU politician Hans-Georg Maaßen.
When asked whether he was a right-wing man, Laschet replied with the counter-question whether Romeo knew Maassen.
“What do you like about him?” Pauline added.
"I'm just saying it is set up in Thuringia," replied a slightly irritated candidate for chancellor - there are different opinions in one party.
"Why should there be something good about him?" Added Laschet at Pauline's insistence.
There was also a dispute on the subject of gay marriage: Laschet denied having been against marriages between men.
Romeo cited an older
Spiegel
interview.
Thereupon Laschet said: “You already have the
mirror
Read it so long ago, but that's great. "Then Romeo:" No, I googled it. "
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Scholz too had to deal with questions that were uncomfortable for him.
Romeo asked whether Russian President Vladimir Putin was a murderer.
Putin is responsible for the fact that many people in Russia are threatened with their lives, said Scholz.
Then Romeo wanted to know why children had to drown in the sea because they wanted to go to Germany and why an airplane wasn't just sent to them. Scholz replied that many were looking for ways that were not safe, that one had to try to save them and make their homeland safer. When asked why he would then “not get a plane”, the SPD candidate stalled for a moment. Pauline said: "Children drown". Scholz replied that something had to be done to protect them. Nevertheless, rules are needed “to see who can come and who cannot come” - he also thinks that is “right”.
The children wanted to know whether he could have prevented the Wirecard scandal. "No, the responsible authorities could not prevent that," said Scholz. The SPD chancellor candidate had asked citizens' questions on ZDF on Tuesday. Laschet will be a guest in the ARD “Wahlarena” on Wednesday.
The presenter and journalist Louis Klamroth, who will greet Scholz on Wednesday (September 15) in his program “ProSieben Bundestag Election Show”, said as a guest on “Late Night Berlin” after the interviews with Heufer-Umlauf: “I think so , those were the two toughest interviews in the election campaign that I have seen so far. ”They also met with a great response on social networks. “I think politicians should only be interviewed by children in the future,” said one user. “They ask better questions than at Triell, Laschet sweats,” said another. And another reaction: “I'll commit! That is by far the best in the whole election campaign! "(
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