A medical emergency occurred before Armin Laschet's campaign appearance: On Saturday, a CDU politician collapsed and had to be reanimated for minutes.
Delbrück (North Rhine-Westphalia) - Before Armin Laschet (CDU) arrived for an election campaign appearance in Delbrück (North Rhine-Westphalia), a local CDU politician collapsed.
Armin Laschet was on the way and asked the organizers on site whether the performance should take place at all.
According to
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, the local politician had to be reanimated for minutes by the rescue service before he could be contacted again.
Only then was he hospitalized.
The approximately 350 present in the campaign tent applauded the politician in front of the transport.
Armin Laschet's campaign appearance can take place with the consent of the family
"I think if something like this happens, politics has to take a back seat," Laschet said later.
The Paderborn CDU member of the Bundestag Carsten Linnemann (44) confirmed to Laschet that the appearance could take place.
“The person is doing better, I know the person very, very well.
He is also very involved in the CDU.
And he is stable, "he did against
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said.
The family of the person concerned also agreed that Laschet should give his speech as planned.
Support for the rescue workers came from a group of counter-demonstrators against Laschet's appearance.
Representatives of "Parents for future" had used their banner as a privacy screen for the emergency services.
Laschet (CDU) improvises speech and thanks the rescue workers
In his campaign speech of the CDU chancellor candidate then improvised, so
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. Laschet emphasized that politics had to take a back seat to a medical emergency. "There is only one thing to do: to take care of someone who has suffered something in terms of health at that moment and it is a very, very good signal that he is on the mend," said Laschet at the beginning of his speech. In other parts of the speech, too, he moved away from the prepared manuscript and went into the work of the rescue workers.
“In the political debates - far away from rural areas - we often talk very derogatory about them. We experience in society that rescue workers are attacked. Me is something completely incomprehensible ", Laschet said loudly
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. Photos show how Laschet thanks the paramedics with a handshake. He also refrained from attacking his opponents Annalena Baerbock (Greens) and Olaf Scholz (SPD) because the moment was not the right time for something like that. Contender Baerbock (Greens) delivered a TV debate with a farmer. (kat)
