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Armin Laschet, the CDU chairman and candidate for Union chancellor, attacked the Greens and accused them of lack of content. In terms of content, however, they had little to offer, said Laschet of the "Süddeutsche Zeitung". "Your program is not good," the Union will emphasize in the election campaign. The Greens did not co-rule for 16 years and did not have to prove anything. "That's why you don't see your deficits that way." When asked about the most important difference between him and Green Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock, Laschet replied: "She talks, I act."

The Union’s first election goal in the federal elections at the end of September must be to remain the “strongest force”, Laschet said.

CSU boss Markus Söder had previously named a result as a goal in the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" that was "well over 30 percent - closer to 35 percent".

Laschet threw back Söder's accusation that his approach to politics was too old-fashioned.

"In recent years I had the impression that some in the CSU criticized me for my ideas for modernizing our society and our state." An urban and socially diverse state like North Rhine-Westphalia "can only be won with a progressive agenda and one modern management style, ”added North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister.

"That also applies to Germany."

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Söder had said that he himself stood for modernization, the Union candidate for chancellor, on the other hand, for an old political approach.

Laschet, on the other hand, stated: “With the decade of modernization I have proposed, I am translating our values ​​and principles into modern times.

So the Union has always been successful. "

Laschet praises the FDP

Laschet announced that economic policy would be the focus of the decision.

It's about detoxing the bureaucracy, a service-oriented state and digitization.

“We need a new start-up era,” emphasized the CDU leader, “the Greens cannot do that”.

He also praised the FDP, with which the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister governs his state: "The FDP is a good partner with whom you can advance the country."

Laschet also rejected the accusation that environmental and climate protection were not important in his thinking, but also referred to the impact on jobs. “Our exit from coal is not a decoration. ... We tackled the phase-out of hard coal first and now the phase-out of lignite. We can do structural change. The restructuring of the chemical industry, the steel industry, the automobile industry - that is a task of the century. "In other words: every ton of green steel that is produced in Duisburg instead of China or India is a contribution to climate protection," said Laschet.

He also always said that he “didn't want a one-man show”. "We need a team in which the different currents are visible - this is how I put my cabinet in North Rhine-Westphalia together." He lacks the breadth of the currents in the list of the current federal government. “It has to be different in the next cabinet,” said Laschet.