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Thuringia's Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (left): Left, SPD and Greens are currently forming a minority government in Thuringia
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Many Germans tend to get bored during the election campaign
6:25 a.m.:
Many voters have found the current federal election campaign to be rather boring.
In a survey by the YouGov opinion research institute on behalf of the German Press Agency, only four percent of those eligible to vote described the current election campaign as "extremely exciting".
16 percent of those questioned rated the competition between the parties as "rather exciting".
And although everything seems to be open in the matter of the governing coalition at the moment, a total of 43 percent of the participants in the representative survey find the election campaign boring.
19 percent of them were even of the opinion that the competition for votes and the Chancellery was "extremely boring" this time.
Around 29 percent of Germans find the election campaign neither exciting nor boring.
Laschet wants to create a digital ministry in the event of an election
6:20 a.m.:
Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet (CDU) wants to rapidly advance digitization in Germany in a government under his leadership.
He sees three things as particularly important, said Laschet of the "Rheinische Post".
This includes the creation of a digital ministry, "which bundles competencies and measurably promotes digitization at all levels of our country".
Second, an answer to Afghanistan and the new threat situation is required.
"This is one of the reasons why I want to create a national security council in the Chancellery that creates a better network of internal and external security concerns," said the Union candidate for chancellor.
"Thirdly, we have to speed up the approval process," demanded Laschet.
The CDU chairman expressed the hope that a government could be formed quickly after the election: "Germany needs stability and a government quickly."
»During the sounding it must be noticeable: Do we believe that we can do this together for four years?
And if you have no human doubts about it, you get every problem solved. "
Brinkhaus sees Merz as ministerial
06.15 a.m.:
Union
faction leader
Ralph Brinkhaus sees the financial expert Friedrich Merz (CDU) after the federal election on a ministerial post.
"I assume that he will be a member of the next federal government," said Brinkhaus to the editorial network Germany (RND / Friday).
Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet had already promised the former group leader an important future role.
Laschet said at the end of August that he was the "economic and financial face" that would also shape federal politics after the election.
A few days before the general election on September 26, the Union continues to struggle with poor poll numbers.
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