Germany: Election candidates and party leaders trade jibes in Bundestag debate

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The top candidates of Germany’s main political parties gave speeches during a debate in the German Bundestag in Berlin on Tuesday, as the political body reopened after a break. The candidates and party leaders discussed Merkel’s legacy after she addressed the Bundestag for what could be the last time as chancellor, as well as made their pitches and criticisms of other parties ahead of the upcoming federal elections.​

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SOT, Olaf Scholz, Vice-Chancellor (German): “I think it would be wrong if the debate starts with vaccination requirements and similar, what we need to do is convince our citizens, and I would also like to say that we have to convince them in a relaxed manner, even with jokes that are laughed about at many events. If some don’t want to laugh and get upset about it, perhaps it has something to do with the fact that they have little to laugh at when they look at the polls.”

SOT, Olaf Scholz, Vice-Chancellor (German): “The fact is that the CDU/CSU has rejected the expansion of power generation capacities every year in the last few years, because they were of the firm conviction that this is wrong, that it’s not needed. They said it two years ago that one doesn’t need more electricity, and again last year said that one needs no more electricity, and again in June that one doesn’t need more electricity. This is a threat to the economic standing of Germany and another federal government lead by the CDU/CSU will cost Germany prosperity and jobs.”

SOT, Alice Weidel, Co-Chairwoman of AfD at the Bundestag (German): “Mrs. Merkel, your last term was a period of accelerating decline for Germany. Your successor will be left with a redevelopment case. A country that is insecure and divided. A country whose representatives take on the role of a moral high school teacher but, in an emergency, fail and fail in an amateur way.”

SOT, Christian Lindner, Chairman of FDP Party (German): “This country has an unbelievable amount of private initiative, this country has an unbelievable amount of private know-how, and this country even has an unbelievable amount of private capital. The problem is not the country, the problem is a government that constantly under-demands and restricts bureaucratically.”

SOT, Dieter Bartsch, Co-Chairman of Die Linke (German): “The question is very simply the Left or Lindner, it is the question of whether the SPD and Greens really want to implement their election programme. To close I would like to finish by repeating Christian Lindner’s sentence, modified: ‘It is better to govern well with the Left, than to govern incorrectly with Lindner.’ Our country needs a policy change, a social government, and that is our offer to our citizens, thank you.”

SOT, Anna-Lena Baerbock, Co-Chariwoman of the Greens (German): “This election, Mrs Chancellor, you said very aptly, is a choice of direction, because it decides whether the next federal government can still actively influence the climate crises or not, and therefore the question of climate change must be the focus of the next government.”

SOT, Anna-Lena Baerbock, Co-Chairwoman of the Greens (German): “What else should we do when we have to live with these extreme weather events. What else should we do when half of southern Europe is on fire, that now in New York the floods flow into the subway. That is the point where one must act, and not simply say ‘we go on as before and see what happens.’ That is the biggest risk of our time and that’s why it’s the central task of our generation.”

SOT, Armin Laschet, Secretary General of CDU (German): “We can discuss small-scale measures here, we will also have to do our part here in Germany, but we will only cope with this great task as a global task, as climate foreign policy, and there we must speak with countries who do not share our view of mankind, with Russia, with China, with the Arab world. Only if we come here to more common ground we will solve this task.”

SOT, Armin Laschet, Secretary General of CDU: “But they [the voters] have a right, that the one who wants to become the chancellor says clearly whether they, really want to rule in a government with a party that wants to dissolve NATO, to dissolve the constitutional protection, to disarm the army rather than strengthen it, to dissolve the special commando corps, that says no to all of the European Union treaties, Maastricht, Amsterdam, Nice, Lisbon. They have always said no. We will not form a coalition with you [the Left]. I say to the AFD, with you we will not cooperate, negotiate, and we will never form a coalition with you. We will do all so that you will not be represented in the Bundestag anymore, that is our fight against you.”

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