A sort ofRmin Laschet’s father helped the coalition’s prime minister candidate get the CDU chairmanship six months ago; at that time he put the memory of the deceased miner at the beginning of his application speech. Now he also accompanies him to participate in the election campaign: the coalition party’s campaign advertisement begins with the phrase “my father is a miner” and shows the candidate in the picture. In the small movie, Raschelt went on to say that as prime minister he closed the last coal mine, so he knows what change means.
At the beginning of the Coalition’s election campaign in Berlin on Saturday, Lashet presented his political panorama: There is no “business as usual” in foreign policy; in the future, European security forces will have to deal with the situation at Kabul Airport by themselves. The federal government needs a national security committee.
Raschelt: The Social Democratic Party and the Green Party are uncertain on internal security issues
Lashet described the Green Party as an unreliable party in foreign policy; in the last Afghanistan mission, half of the lawmakers voted against the deployment of the Bundeswehr, with one quarter in favor and one quarter abstaining. He accused the Social Democratic Party of failing to comply with NATO’s commitment to increase Germany’s defense budget. When it comes to internal security issues, both are equally uncertain.
The coalition’s top candidate also rejected other policy areas: the Green Party, the Left, and the Social Democratic Party. Their plans all increased taxes, but the coalition rejected this. In the fight against climate change, not always new bans help, but inventions and innovations so that industrial jobs can stay in Germany.
Rashet tried to use individual examples to illustrate what the secretary generals of the CDU and CDU put forward in general terms: preparing for the camp’s election campaign. Paul Ziemiak and Markus Blume warned against “Left experimentation” but advocated “German reliability.”
Bloom described the Social Democratic Party as a “burden party” and the Green Party as a “ban party.” Alexander Dobrindt, head of the CSU Regional Group of the Bundestag, talked about “significant decisions about direction”, it is about order or “left chaos”, about “rising or falling”, about “relief or burden” .
Soder warns that the campaign is tough
CSU Chairman Markus Söder also tried to send dramatic emotional signals. Soder predicts that election night will be “very scarce,” and for a long time, the question is no longer with whom the coalition will govern, but whether it will govern, or whether the “left-wing coalition” will bring the majority together. This will be “the toughest election campaign since 1998”, that is, since the last time the coalition lost its majority in the government to the Social Democrats and the Greens.
Soder appeared in Tempodrom, Berlin, at the beginning of the campaign, as if he were the host of the CSU of the two parties of the coalition”, but enthusiastically praised Angela Merkel’s government performance, as if he was already giving her a farewell speech.
Merkel’s farewell signaled “the end of a truly great era”, Soder said, “16 years have been very successful,” and “an excellent balance sheet.” The Chairman of CSU said directly to the Prime Minister: “Dear Angela, respect and thank you, you have protected our country very well.” He also added the CSU formula commonly used for self-criticism: “We don’t always make it easy for you.”
Merkel on “Afghan tragedy”
On the other hand, the chancellor does not want to have anything to do with the balance sheet. She took the time to point out that during her tenure, the unemployment rate has fallen by more than half, new debt has dropped to zero, and the proportion of climate-friendly power generation has risen from 10% to more than 40%. But then Merkel was more willing to talk about the current worries, namely the “Afghan tragedy,” and acknowledged the failure of the West.
This is not just to prevent Afghanistan from continuing to be the source of Islamic terrorism. The intentions of the West, including Germany, were “broader,” and they “hoped to achieve as many free, beautiful, and independent lives as possible,” especially for women and girls; this did not succeed in the end.
Therefore, Angela Merkel stayed in the fence of her current worries. Until the end, governance is still her daily life, not a campaign activity. She praised Raschelt and described his political stance, and he is now “convinced” that he will add the post of Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. “Everything went well along the way, and I went all out in the last few hours,” Merkel finally shouted to Raschelt, as if he had been a visitor to her office and is now on his way to the door.
On the other hand, Soder clearly placed himself in the Lashet team at the end of his appearance, and even insisted that the prime minister candidate should play a prominent role. Rushett, who had to face poor popularity ratings, has promised more frequently in the past few days that he hopes to put more of the other members of the team in the foreground. His former competitor, Friedrich Merz. (Friedrich Merz) said hello there and said, “You can do Armin Laschet commissioned by the state.”
On the other hand, Söder said that leading a team is a good thing. But in the end it “always depends on the candidate for prime minister.” Söder, yes, and a former competitor of Laschet, he promised: “Dear Armin, you can count on my support.”
