display
The CDU politician Friedrich Merz has sharply attacked the newly elected green candidate for Chancellor Annalena Baerbock.
“I have serious doubts that Baerbock can be Chancellor.
The Greens are overwhelmingly a one-issue party.
Annalena Baerbock lacks any international experience, apart from the fact that she studied international law, ”he says in a podcast of the“ Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger ”.
Merz added: “With Ms. Baerbock - with all due respect - some media lose their distance.
That this corresponds to the zeitgeist may be.
I don't want to follow the zeitgeist, I want to have a say in the zeitgeist. "
In an interview with the two moderators Wolfgang Bosbach and Christian Rach, however, the politician expressed fundamental criticism of the green party: “I am sure that it will be possible to combine economy and ecology in such a way that we can reconcile an industrial society, can remain an industrialized country and at the same time also achieve climate protection goals.
I have great doubts about the Greens that they want that. "
display
Merz had prevailed on Saturday in a fight vote as a Bundestag candidate for the CDU in the Hochsauerland. In January Merz lost to North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Armin Laschet in the race for CDU chairmanship, but later assured Laschet of support. On Wednesday Merz declared that he wanted to get involved in the election campaign in East Germany.