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Protest in Berlin: Climate activists also stop drinking on hunger strike
1.45 p.m.:
The activists in front of the Bundestag have not yet achieved their goal of forcing a conversation with the chancellor candidates.
Now some of them are tightening the course.
Read more here.
Merkel supports Laschet in his hometown
1:03 p.m.:
Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) once again strongly promoted Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet in her last appearance before the federal election. "Tomorrow it will be about Germany remaining stable," said Merkel on Saturday at a rally with Laschet in his home town of Aachen. "It doesn't matter who rules Germany." As Prime Minister, Laschet not only led North Rhine-Westphalia successfully. He also did a lot for the unification of Europe. His actions are characterized by "building bridges" and taking people with him.
Laschet warned again against the participation of the left in a federal government.
He does not want the left to participate in the next federal government.
He predicts that "if there was a majority for red-red-green tomorrow, they will do it."
In front of several hundred supporters in the pedestrian zone of Aachen-Burtscheid, he demonstrated his confidence that the CDU would become the strongest political force in the federal elections.
False flyer company fools AfD
12.30 p.m.:
According to the party, more than a million election campaign flyers for Alternative for Germany (AfD) should not have been distributed.
The AfD announced on Friday that a service provider had offered a few weeks ago on favorable terms to distribute the advertising material to households.
Now it has turned out, however, that this service provider does not even exist.
AfD top candidate Tino Chrupalla blamed representatives of the Center for Political Beauty (ZPS) in a message.
According to "Zeit Online", the action artists of the ZPS have not yet wanted to comment on this.
From the federal office of the party it was said that district associations and candidates of the AfD in Lower Saxony, Berlin, Hesse, Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate are likely to be affected.
The party announced that it would promptly file a criminal complaint.
Schneider expects a more diverse SPD parliamentary group
12:05 p.m.:
The parliamentary manager of the SPD parliamentary group, Carsten Schneider, expects a younger and more diverse parliamentary group after the federal election.
"I assume that half will be new MPs," said Schneider of the dpa news agency on the sidelines of an SPD election campaign event on Saturday in Erfurt.
There will probably be a large number of young MEPs and the group will be more diverse than before.
»We have many candidates, including those with a migration background.
It will no longer be so homogeneous, but more heterogeneous.
I think that's a win. "
If the polls of the SPD were confirmed in the election results, it would also be a larger SPD parliamentary group, according to Schneider.
In the last polls before the election on Sunday, the SPD was ahead of the CDU - sometimes very close.
CDU General Secretary Paul Ziemiak told the “Stuttgarter Zeitung” and the “Stuttgarter Nachrichten”: “More than 50 young socialists are expected to belong to the future SPD parliamentary group.” That means a “massive left shift” by the SPD.
Those were the top search trends in the campaign year
11.46 a.m.:
Olaf Scholz +
guinea pig
: An evaluation of Google data has shown which terms Germans search most frequently in connection with the top candidates - and which politician interests citizens most.
Read more here.
SPD rang three million house doors during the election campaign
11.39 a.m.:
According to the party, the election campaigners of the SPD knocked or
rang the doorbell
on more than three million front doors in the country.
According to the current status, the SPD was on a total of 3,011,485 house doors in the federal election campaign, said Secretary General Lars Klingbeil on Saturday.
He is very satisfied with the "passionate election campaign of the more than 400,000 SPD members".
In June, Klingbeil set the goal of knocking and ringing the doorbell on an average of 10,000 house doors in each of the 299 constituencies during the election campaign.
The three million door mark has been cracked, he said now.
"It's great to see how comrades across the country are sore their heels to promote the SPD and our candidate for Chancellor Olaf Scholz."
The front runner in the door-to-door election campaign is, according to the party SPD Vice-Vice President Kevin Kühnert, who rang the doorbell in his constituency of Berlin-Tempelhof-Schöneberg together with his supporters at over 50,000 doors.
In second place is Annika Klose from the Berlin-Mitte constituency with 35,000 doors.
Andreas Philippi and his team visited 22,000 households in Göttingen.
Greens expect the Bundestag to expand to more than 830 seats
10.55 a.m.:
The Greens expect the Bundestag to expand to more than 830 mandates in the coming legislative period. "After the election, exactly what we have always warned about will occur: According to our calculations, the Bundestag will probably grow to over 830 seats, because the CSU in particular, but also the CDU and SPD, have opposed a fundamental reform of the electoral law," said the parliamentary manager of the Greens, Britta Haßelmann, of the Düsseldorf »Rheinische Post« on Saturday.
According to Haßelmann, the more than 830 mandates are based on a mathematical extrapolation by the Green parliamentary group, which used the last Infratest-Dimap survey and the current first-vote forecast by election.de as a basis for the distribution of votes.
Haßelmann criticized: "With the reform proposal by the Greens, FDP and Left, the Bundestag would have become considerably smaller, if not smaller than the current one."
The law provides for at least 598 MPs.
The outgoing Bundestag had a record 709 representatives.
The reason for the inflation are overhang and compensatory mandates, which are intended to prevent distortions if a party receives more direct mandates in the constituencies than it is entitled to based on the number of second votes.
Election campaign in the final spurt - Laschet and Merkel in Aachen
10.41 a.m.:
One day before the federal election, the parties are still trying to attract undecided voters over the last few meters. Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet and Chancellor Angela Merkel (both CDU) appear on Saturday for their last rally in Laschet's hometown Aachen. The FDP with its party leader Christian Lindner ends its nationwide election campaign with rallies in Cologne and Düsseldorf. SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz is mainly in his constituency in Potsdam.
An exciting election evening is on the horizon for Sunday.
In the polls, the SPD was last able to maintain its leadership, but in some cases only very narrowly.
Depending on the polling institute, it was 25 to 26 percent - and thus one to four percentage points ahead of the Union.
The Greens with their candidate for Chancellor Annalena Baerbock are in third place in the polls.
In view of the large number of undecided voters, the outcome of the election is considered to be absolutely open.
In principle, election surveys only reflect the opinion at the time of the survey and are not a prognosis for the outcome of the election.
You are also always fraught with uncertainties.
The situation in the morning:
who can and cannot rely on Scholz
10.17 a.m.:
In the morning's situation, today it's about the SPD's candidate for chancellor, about, yes, still, Angela Merkel, about necessary self-deception, about a political prime number and, of course, about voting.
Read the situation of Dirk Kurbjuweit here.
More than two thirds of Germans consider the Bundestag to be too big
9.10 a.m.:
The majority of Germans consider the Bundestag, with its 709 members, to be too big.
In a survey by the polling institute YouGov on behalf of the dpa news agency, 71 percent said that there were too many members in parliament.
Eleven percent said they thought the number of seats was just right.
Only three percent thought the Bundestag had to be enlarged.
The latter is likely to happen with the federal election - the reason for this is the German electoral system.
Suffrage experts assume that the number of MPs will increase again.
Some do not rule out even a growth to more than 1000 MPs.
The standard size of the Bundestag is 598 seats.
Since the 2017 election, however, he has had 709 members - more than ever before.
The CDU / CSU and SPD implemented a change in the electoral law last October, but experts believe that this will hardly lead to the hoped-for downsizing of parliament.
More than 4,200 campaign-related crimes
9.00 a.m.:
In connection with the election campaign, according to a media report, the security authorities have so far registered more than 4,200 crimes.
The "Welt am Sonntag" refers to a survey among the federal states, only Hesse did not provide any specific figures.
Accordingly, it is primarily a matter of property damage, in particular to election posters.
But violent crimes, propaganda crimes and insults were also recorded.
According to the newspaper, not only offenses in the run-up to the federal election are included, but also cases in connection with other election campaigns such as in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Berlin.
There, the state parliaments will be re-elected on this Sunday, parallel to the Bundestag.
The number coincides with information from the Federal Criminal Police Office in an internal situation report from which the "Welt am Sonntag" quotes.
Accordingly, the BKA had registered 4035 crimes two weeks before the federal election, including 42 violent crimes.
The authorities could not have assigned two thirds of the acts to any political spectrum, the rest were spread across the left-wing extremist and right-wing extremist spectrum.
Green state finance minister is critical of wealth tax
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Baden-Württemberg's Green Finance Minister Danyal Bayaz is critical of a wealth tax demanded by his party and is therefore flexible for any coalition negotiations on the subject.
"The wealth tax is in our election program - I personally see it skeptically, however," he told the "Wirtschaftswoche".
Baden-Württemberg has many owner-managed companies.
"With them, a wealth tax would go down the drain, I find that difficult."
According to his presentation, it would hardly be manageable for the tax administration.
"If they now have to count vintage cars every year and evaluate Picassos, that would be impossible," said Bayaz.
"One or the other topic would certainly be up for discussion in the negotiations."
The most likely coalition options after the Bundestag election this Sunday is a three-party coalition with the Greens and the FDP, led by the SPD or the Union.
The FDP categorically rejects a wealth tax.
Bayaz, however, advocated reducing the number of exceptions to inheritance tax and, if necessary, extending the payment over several years so that if there are high business assets, it "does not go to the substance and does not endanger jobs and investments."
Survey: The majority of Germans will not miss Merkel
6.35 a.m.:
A little more than half of Germans will not miss Angela Merkel as Chancellor, as a survey by the opinion research institute Civey on behalf of the »Augsburger Allgemeine« showed.
According to this, 52 percent will not be missing, 38 percent of those surveyed will miss Merkel, the rest were undecided.
Wealth tax: companies would reduce investments
5.45 a.m.:
The majority of German companies would reduce their investments if the wealth tax or property
levy were
reintroduced.
This is the result of a representative survey by the Ifo Institute on behalf of the Family Business Foundation, which according to a preliminary report is available in parts to the newspapers of the Funke media group.
Accordingly, 48.8 percent of companies state that they want to reduce their investments in the event of a new levy.
Another 10.4 percent would even stop investing completely.
Only 2.4 percent of the companies would increase their investments.
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