Two days before the general election, Baerbock, Laschet and Scholz once again underpinned their claims to be chancellor.
The election showdown is imminent.
Berlin - The election campaign finally turns into the home straight two days before the federal election in 2021.
At the end, Annalena Baerbock, Armin Laschet and Olaf Scholz were all confident of victory.
The current polls on the federal election suggest a close neck-and-neck race between Armin Laschet and Olaf Scholz.
After the SPD candidate had recently been in the lead, a survey by the Allensbach Institute Laschet on Friday saw his opponent approaching up to one point.
It should be noted here that the Union in the Allensbach surveys mostly performed slightly better in the past than in other surveys.
Election final: Laschet wants to rule with Söder - "great team"
Nevertheless, the new figures should give Armin Laschet a tailwind. The Union candidate met with Chancellor Angela Merkel and Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder in Munich on Friday. Armin Laschet surprised people in Munich by placing Söder's future role in the foreground: “This bundling - a North Rhine-Westphalian who is moving to Berlin and a Bavarian who is sitting at the coalition table. That will be unbeatable, and I tell every coalition partner: Put warm clothes on: Armin and Markus - it will be a great team and we will rule the Federal Republic together. "
Söder attacked Olaf Scholz and the FDP sharply.
He warned against voting for the FDP and spoke of "immoral vibrations" between Lindner and Scholz.
Nevertheless, Söder saw the Union - probably also in view of the improved polls - two days before the election at an advantage over the SPD.
Bundestag election: Scholz sees “momentum” in the SPD
Naturally, Olaf Scholz saw it differently.
At an appearance in Cologne he was confident of victory and saw the “momentum” at his party confronted by the picture with the new, brief survey.
According to Scholz, he feels a lot of approval and the will to change government in Germany.
The Federal Finance Minister sharply criticized the tax plans of the Union and FDP.
Tax cuts in the amount of 30 billion euros for the wealthy were "completely out of time," said the SPD candidate with a view to the mountain of debt accumulated in the Corona crisis.
Baerbock wants to remain Federal Chancellor
Meanwhile, Green Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock reaffirmed her party's claim to lead the future government, despite poor poll numbers. At a central rally at the end of the election campaign on Friday in Düsseldorf, Baerbock said that many companies in Germany have long been relying on climate-neutral business practices. Now what is needed is a “green-led federal government that sets the framework for this,” the Greens chairman called to her supporters.
In the Bundestag election, the question is whether there will continue to be a “ducking away” with the GroKo or a “new departure”.
She reproached the previous governing parties for declaring their commitment to climate protection, but not taking action.
"Writing climate chancellors on posters is not enough," emphasized the Greens' candidate for chancellor.
"We can no longer afford anything by halves."
There is no “knowledge problem, but an action problem”, emphasized Baerbock.
If the switch is not thrown now, the children will ask: "Why didn't you do everything when you knew what to do." (
Rjs, dpa, afp)
