A sort ofTo the end Armin Raschelt It’s another person. No Merkel, no Sodd. This means that on this warm Saturday afternoon in the far southwest of Berlin, the candidate for prime minister is not alone. Dozens of party members received him in Klado and participated in the election campaign at the door. Accompanying Raschelt are Spandau’s Bundestag candidate Joe Chiallo, Berlin’s top candidate for the House of Representatives election Kay Wegner, party members and journalists. 40, maybe 50 people crowded in the quiet streets of Klado.
this CDU Having seen this area beforehand, you know where you will be elected and where you will not. They also checked a little to see if anyone was at home. But things are still not completely smooth. Sometimes the front door will open, sometimes it will stay closed, sometimes a woman opens a crack and closes the door as soon as she sees the crowd in front of her house.
Machine applause
Rashet was in Kreuzberg, Tempodrom before Craddo rang the doorbell.A few hundred meters from the headquarters of the Social Democratic Party, the CDU and the CDU Colorado State University At the beginning of the so-called popular campaign stage. In addition to party celebrities-except for Raschelt, especially the Prime Minister and the Prime Minister of Bavaria-about 70 young people wearing T-shirts and open shirts sat in the hall and clapped like robots, so that there was a problem in artificial intelligence. It’s impossible to solve the problem completely during the pandemic.
As Angela Merkel A few minutes after 11 a.m., she wore a yellow suit jacket and stood on the stage to remind herself that she has not participated in the campaign since she announced her withdrawal in the fall of 2018. “Everything has its time,” she said in typical Merkel’s words. Then she claimed that she still thought it was “really good” there.
Merkel has never been an enthusiastic candidate. She found the date on the weekend between going to Moscow on Friday and Kiev on Sunday, it remains to be seen. But she fulfilled her duties as a CDU politician and is still a popular prime minister. She praised Laschet. The “C” in the party’s name is the “compass”. He acted on the basis of the image of a Christian person, focusing on people with “inviolable dignity.”
She called him “the future Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany”. But then she widely acknowledged the performance of the current Federal Chancellor, referring to the sharp drop in unemployment during her tenure, the end of new debt-until the arrival of the corona-euro bailout, and the strong growth of renewable energy power. Of course, she also talked about the “tragedy” in Afghanistan.
At best, a decent relationship
Merkel and Raschelt, the past and present are at best a decent relationship. not much.Even though the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia sided with the Prime Minister in 2015 and the years following the refugee crisis, this did not even lead to an intimate relationship between her and the head of the Saarland government Annie Great Cramp-Karenbauer At the same time they prevailed until both women were disappointed in each other.
When it comes to succeeding Kramp Karenbauer as the chairman of the CDU, Merkel is even more cautious than before in party affairs, including the applicant Raschelt. A year ago, only once, when it was unclear whether Rashet would become a senior CDU, she made a clear exception. She visited the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf and said that anyone who wants to become the chairman of the CDU must also be prepared to become the prime minister. If someone uses an effective coalition formed by the CDU and the Liberal Democratic Party to rule the most populous federal state, “then at least this is an absolutely important armament.”
But Merkel put it on hold. Or to be more precise: She is not afraid to throw Laschet Club between her legs, for example, when she criticized his corona policy on a talk show in front of millions of viewers.In April, the CDU board of directors argued over who for a night Principal candidate Merkel said in a warm silence. Until Saturday, Merkel had hardly entered the final stage of the campaign. She left it at the opening ceremony and final assembly. CDU is happy to make more promises, but it doesn’t seem to be the case.
