At the "elephant round", the top candidates will discuss the federal election in 2021. CSU leader Markus Söder takes on SPD winner Olaf Scholz - he easily blocks.
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Update, 9:15 p.m.: SPD man Olaf Scholz is also asked whether he could imagine the role of opposition leader. “No, I want to become Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany,” he explains. That was it with the “Berlin Round”, the so-called “Elephant Round”, on ARD and ZDF. Thank you for reading this news ticker! Of course, we will keep you up to date with all the news about the 2021 federal election.
Update, 9:14 p.m.: Armin Laschet points out that the CDU party executive will meet on Monday.
Can he imagine becoming an opposition leader?
"I am interested in conducting the exploratory talks from the position of party chairman," he explains.
He does not want to answer whether he will become a parliamentary group leader in the Bundestag.
Update, 9.10 p.m.: CSU boss Markus Söder affirmed: “We want to govern.
We want to govern. ”2023 is the state election in Bavaria.
His party has come under pressure from this general election.
Update, 9:08 p.m.: FDP boss Armin Laschet is downright mysterious.
"Europe is waiting for Germany to get a government," he says of the expected coalition negotiations and already signals readiness for the Union: "With Armin Laschet it was possible to form a new government in four weeks," he explains with a view to the state government in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Federal election 2021: "Elephant Round" (ARD / ZDF) - Olaf Scholz wants a new government before Christmas
Update, 9:05 p.m.: CDU Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet * confirms that the Union will also advertise coalition negotiations.
“The new government has to come into office very soon.
I wish we can do that.
Definitely before Christmas, ”explains the Rhinelander.
Update, 9:02 p.m.: Germany has to be prepared for long coalition negotiations, that becomes clear again and again in the "Berlin Round" of ARD and ZDF.
“My ambition is that we can do it faster.
To give an exact date would be absurd.
But, if we were done before Christmas, it would be good, ”says Lower Saxony Scholz (SPD).
Update, 8:56 p.m.: SPD man Scholz is asked again which government he wants to form.
"I have been making the suggestions that I have for weeks and months," replies the 63-year-old.
He wants "it to be done quickly".
Federal election 2021: "Elephant Round" (ARD / ZDF) - CDU boss Armin Laschet advertises for the Greens
Update, 8:53 p.m.: CDU boss Armin Laschet is vehemently promoting the Greens.
Despite the electoral defeat, he apparently continues to believe in a black-green-yellow government alliance.
For example, on the subject of solar energy, the NRW Prime Minister speaks that the Union and the Greens are not far apart.
“They are two different paths, but the goal is the same,” he says.
Update, 8:50 p.m.: The questioners from ARD and ZDF keep asking who is ready for which coalition.
But all Chancellor candidates and top candidates are evading, do not want to commit themselves between “traffic light” and “Jamaica”.
Update, 8.45 p.m.: CSU boss Markus Söder is asked about the worst result of his party in decades in Bavaria.
According to an extrapolation from Bavarian Broadcasting, the CSU comes to 32.5 percent.
For comparison: four years ago the CSU in Bavaria received 44.2 percent of the first votes and 38.8 percent of the second votes.
Instead of addressing his own mistakes, Söder prefers to deal out against the Free Voters.
“The two or three percent of the free voters could endanger a real civic alliance,” he says, referring to his coalition partner in Bavaria, who has once again missed entry into the Bundestag across Germany.
Federal election 2021: "Elephant Round" (ARD / ZDF) - CDU boss Armin Laschet looks thin-skinned
Update, 8.41 p.m.: FDP leader Christian Lindner does not rule out a Jamaica coalition made up of the CDU / CSU, the Greens and the FDP.
He obviously wants to keep everything open.
At least he criticizes the Union and the Greens for the failed coalition negotiations in 2017. Will it work better this time?
Update, 8:38 p.m.: CDU boss Armin Laschet looks a bit thin-skinned.
The bad result for the Union is apparently affecting him.
“Let's think about success, Mr. Becker.
And not about failure, ”he says to the questioners from ARD and ZDF.
Again, as a reminder: the Union had to accept severe losses of over eight percent in the federal election in 2021.
Update, 8:36 p.m.: Armin Laschet is asked whether he can still remain CDU boss with this union result.
"We don't even have all the results," says the Rhinelander a bit gruffly: "We'll discuss it in the Union when the time comes."
Update, 8:33 p.m.: The elephant round is about possible coalitions.
For SPD winner Scholz it is about "binding things together so that our country can make progress".
Federal election 2021: "Elephant Round" (ARD / ZDF) - FDP boss Lindner wants to talk to the Greens
Update, 8:28 p.m.: FDP boss Christian Lindner comments on a possible coalition.
“We went into the election campaign very independently.
There were campaigns by the Union against the SPD, ”he says.
Lindner clearly suggests that "the Greens and FDP speak to each other first in order to structure what comes next".
So first the junior partners should sound out whether they can get together politically.
Update, 8:22 p.m.: CSU boss Markus Söder also explains that the Union would still like to form a coalition as a senior partner.
In the federal election, the citizens would have spoken out against red-red-green, he says with a view to the Left Party, which apparently only barely makes it into the Bundestag.
"This mistrust is also a mistrust of Olaf Scholz, because he favored such an alliance," says Söder: "We offer to be the right partner." A clear message to the Greens and the FDP.
Federal election 2021: "Elephant Round" (ARD / ZDF) - Armin Laschet confirms government claim
Update, 8:20 p.m.: CDU boss Laschet is asked whether he has the right to enter into coalition negotiations with the Union, although the sister parties are probably only in second place by votes.
It is about “bringing together different parliamentary groups in the German Bundestag and having a majority.
The party that was unanimous was not always the one that put the chancellor, ”says the Aachen resident.
So he would still sound out a coalition.
Update, 8:18 p.m.: SPD man Scholz is asked if he wants to form the new government.
“The votes are very clear.
The SPD are such that we are ahead in all the polls.
That is a very clear mandate that we form a good and pragmatic government for Germany - as quickly as possible, by the way, "says the Lower Saxony and means with a view to a possible coalition:" There will have to be three.
And I think that will be cleared up in a short time. "
Update, 8.15 p.m.: It starts with the "Berlin Round" from ARD and ZDF!
Update from September 26, 8:05 p.m.:
On the day of the federal election, CDU Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet made an embarrassing glitch when casting his vote *.
The 60-year-old Rhinelander had folded his ballot the wrong way and also held the two crosses clearly visible in the camera.
The choice must actually be secret.
Federal election 2021: "Elephant Round" (ARD / ZDF) - Scholz and Laschet both want to form a government
Update from September 26, 7:55 p.m
.: Tonight from 8:15 p.m., the Chancellor candidates and top candidates of the Bundestag parties will face each other in the so-called "elephant round" of ARD and ZDF.
Both SPD Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz and CDU Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet claim the formation of a government in Germany.
It is now up to the Greens and the FDP who they want to govern with.
One thing is certain: For the first time in Germany there will be a federal government made up of three parties.
According to the election result, the SPD is just ahead of the Union in terms of votes.
Forecast / extrapolation |
time |
SPD |
CDU / CSU |
The green |
FDP |
AfD |
The left |
Others |
Infratest Dimap / ARD |
7:59 p.m. |
25.5 |
24.5 |
13.8 |
11.7 |
10.9 |
5.0 |
8.6 |
Research group / ZDF |
7.30 p.m. |
25.7 |
24.6 |
14.4 |
11.7 |
10.7 |
5.0 |
8.0 |
Federal Parliament election 2021: "Elephant Round" (ARD / ZDF) - How do Scholz and Laschet react to each other?
First report from September 26th:
Munich / Berlin - In the federal election 2021 * there will be elections across Germany on September 26th.
According to surveys *, SPD * chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz * can hope to succeed Angela Merkel *.
The Chancellor resigns after 16 years in government, her CDU * party colleague Armin Laschet * is fighting for Merkel's legacy.
The third top candidate in the league is Annalena Baerbock *, who is sent into the race for the Chancellery by the Greens *.
In the evening, all three candidates will take their seats in the program “Berliner Runde”, which will be broadcast live on ARD and ZDF from 8:15 pm.
In addition, with Markus Söder * (CSU *), Alice Weidel (AfD), Christian Lindner (FDP *) and Janine Wissler (Left *), the leaders of all parties represented in the Bundestag take part.
Federal Parliament election 2021: "Elephant Round" (ARD / ZDF) with Scholz, Laschet, Baerbock, Söder, Lindner, Weidel and Wissler
The politicians participating in the so-called “elephant round” will then already know the first projections of the federal election in 2021.
The first coalition options may already be explored by the top executives of the parties.
The discussion will be led by the two experienced journalists Rainald Becker (ARD) and Peter Frey (ZDF).
The “Berliner Runde” looks back on a long tradition; it has been held since 1969 on public TV channels.
In the "elephant round" it was hot several times.
For example, SPD Chancellor Schröder did not want to admit his narrow defeat against Merkel after the 2005 Bundestag election and defiantly proclaimed: “I will remain Federal Chancellor.” As is well known, that did not happen, Angela Merkel became the first woman to become head of government of the Federal Republic of Germany and remained so until 2021 .
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