WDR election arena for the NRW state elections: does CDU man Wüst play the Putin card against the SPD?
Created: 05/12/2022 13:22
By: Patrick Mayer
State election 2022 in NRW: CDU state leader Hendrik Wüst (left) competes against SPD man Thomas Kutschaty (right).
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NRW head of state Hendrik Wüst (CDU) and his SPD challenger Thomas Kutschaty will compete against each other tonight in the WDR "election arena".
Follow the TV duel for the state elections here in the news ticker.
State election 2022 in North Rhine
-Westphalia: Head of state Hendrik Wüst (CDU) competes against CDU man Thomas Kutschaty.
WDR election arena
: Tonight in North Rhine-Westphalia the focus will also be on the Russia-Ukraine war.
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TV duel in the 2022 NRW state elections will
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Munich/Solingen – Hendrik Wüst (CDU) switched to political combat mode shortly before the 2022 state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW).
The TV duel this Thursday evening against SPD challenger Thomas Kutschaty from 8.15 p.m. in the WDR “election arena” will probably also be about the allegations against the Social Democrats that they are standing with Moscow ruler Vladimir Putin in the environment of the Russia-Ukraine War supposedly too close.
"The fact that the SPD has a Russia problem, especially with Ms. Schwesig and Mr. Schröder, is not an invention of the CDU," Wüst said recently in an interview with
Zeit online
: "Practically the entire West is subject to misjudgments in relation to Russia and evaluates Putin today different than before.
What matters is whether being too close today prevents government policy from making the right decisions.”
TV duel for the 2022 state election: Hendrik Wüst (CDU) competes against Thomas Kutschaty (SPD).
National political issues are in the foreground.
Of course, the Ukraine war would also play a role in the North Rhine-Westphalia state elections, the 46-year-old CDU politician said in an interview with Die
Zeit
.
To classify: Former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder (SPD) is considered a close friend of Russian President and warmonger Putin, and he did not break these close ties even after his attack on Ukraine.
Manuel Schwesig (SPD), Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, on the other hand, was until recently a supporter of the continuation of the "Nord Stream 2" gas pipeline project.
And this despite the fact that the traffic light federal government, under the guidance of the Social Democrats, is working feverishly to make Germany independent of Russian gas.
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Federal politics is a real challenge for libertine opponent Kuchaty.
Especially since, according to a recent INSA survey, the Union of CDU and CSU has clearly pulled ahead of the SPD in the federal government.
How do these impressions affect the duel for the post of prime minister in Düsseldorf?
Follow the TV duel for the 2022 NRW state elections between CDU state leader Hendrik Wüst and SPD man Thomas Kutschaty tonight from 8:15 p.m. here in the live ticker.
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