When it comes to climate neutrality, Armin Laschet makes a mistake.
The political competition takes this on the net with relish and is sharply critical.
Berlin - In the polls for the CDU chancellor candidate Armin Laschet a week before the federal election in 2021, things don't look too rosy.
On Sunday evening (September 19), the NRW Prime Minister has to deliver at the third TV triall with his opponents Olaf Scholz (SPD) and Annalena Baerbock (Greens).
But right at the beginning of the live broadcast, Laschet made a mistake.
When asked by Sat.1 journalist Claudia von Brauchitsch what his main goals as Federal Chancellor would be for Germany, Laschet replied, among other things: "How do we stay a climate-neutral country?"
TV triumph before the federal election in 2021: Laschet receives ridicule after verbal dropouts on climate neutrality
For this sentence, the CDU politician promptly received the ridicule of political competition in the social networks.
On Twitter, politicians from the SPD and the Greens were irritated.
"Did Armin Laschet just say that Germany should 'remain' a climate-neutral industry ???
We are 800 million tons of CO2 away from it every year, ”wrote the Hamburg Green Party politician Katharina Beck.
The SPD co-chairman Norbert Walter-Borjans was also bothered by Laschet's formulation.
"It's getting off to a good start: With Armin Laschet, it's enough if we 'remain' a climate-neutral industrial country!
Well then it's enough to just keep messing around. "
Wolfgang Gründinger, member of an energy movement, saw it the same way.
“'How do we (!) Stay climate-neutral industrialized country?'
Laschet stumbles right at the beginning, ”he commented on the triell.
SPD Bundestag candidate Derya Türk-Nachbaur put it similarly.
“Laschet: So that we can 'stay' a climate-neutral country.
He still has to work on his relationship with Zeit, ”tweeted the Social Democrat.
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