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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - At the last big showdown shortly before the state elections, the top candidates of the parties again separated themselves from each other and argued about the big issues of the future.
There was a lively debate in the elephant group in the SWR about the faltering vaccination campaign, the ecological balance of electric cars and the coalition's wishes.
The candidates did not give each other anything.
Especially CDU top candidate Susanne Eisenmann (CDU) received a lot of criticism in the group.
CORONA - Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) defended the bumpy vaccination start in the country.
You just manage the shortage, there is too little vaccine, said the 72-year-old.
Eisenmann accused the coalition partner of not having set up structures for testing and vaccination in time.
Everyone agreed that the vaccination had to be faster - and dared to take a look into the crystal ball to see when, in their opinion, the pandemic is over.
Under certain conditions, Kretschmann reckons with a return to normality at the end of summer - provided that no further mutants spread.
"God keep us from that," he said.
Eisenmann also said she hoped that the corona crisis would then be over.
AfD top candidate Bernd Gögel emphasized that one had to go on living with Corona.
EDUCATION - At times Eisenmann was attacked so hard by the SPD and FDP that Kretschmann even defended the school policy of the green-black coalition - albeit half-heartedly.
The Green politician protested against the fact that SPD leader Andreas Stoch had given the minister a grade of 6.
He was also a teacher and couldn't remember “that I once handed out a 6.
Everyone can do a little bit ».
Stoch and FDP top candidate Hans-Ulrich Rülke had criticized that there was no reliable school policy in the Corona crisis.
While Eisenmann was a pioneer for open schools, Kretschmann tended to slow down.
It was like a "surprise bag", no one knew what was coming, said Rülke.
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The CDU top candidate, on the other hand, told her predecessor in the Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs, Stoch, that she had cut teaching positions in the election period until 2016 and had not made sure that new teachers were trained.
"Anyone who throws grades around must see for themselves what they have achieved," said Eisenmann to the address of the SPD top candidate.
ECONOMY - Around 500,000 jobs in the country depend on the automotive industry and suppliers.
But how can the transformation succeed without thousands of fitters ending up on the road?
FDP man Rülke and CDU candidate Eisenmann accused the Greens of narrowing down on battery-powered electromobility.
Rülke said it wasn't as green as always claimed.
He spoke of "high governmentalism".
His solution: hydrogen technology.
In addition, the combustion engine should not be banned, but must be made climate-friendly.
Kretschmann assured that he would make a technology-open policy.
But the market ramp-up is taking place for electric cars.
It's not just about the drive, but about the technology in the car of the future.
The head of government says that the horse-drawn carriage could not have been saved when the car was invented.
Eisenmann replies that it is a crazy idea to be able to convert fitters into IT specialists.
COALITIONS - Finally, the candidates should name their preferred coalition partner.
AfD candidate Gögel sees the greatest overlap with the CDU, but no longer with the FDP, because they now support “eco-socialism”.
Rülke then said that he had been called an eco-socialist for the first time in his life.
He wants to enforce his content.
Eisenmann saw no overlap with the AfD.
Kretschmann, who will probably be spoiled for choice from Sunday, left everything open.
These are "popular sandpit games before the election," he said, but the voters would decide first.
Sometimes you have to find yourself even if you haven't looked for yourself.
He hoped that no one could bypass the Greens.
Stoch made a clear commitment: The Social Democrats have the greatest overlap with the Greens, for example in housing construction and climate protection.
And the left?
Would just like to move into the state parliament to be a «guarantor of social justice», said the top candidate Sarah Mirow.
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