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Mainz (dpa / lrs) - Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet (CDU) has called on his party for a decisive election campaign against the Greens.

At the beginning of a state party conference of the CDU Rhineland-Palatinate, Laschet said on Saturday in Mainz about the federal election in September: "The competitive situation is clear."

As sympathetic as the top of the Greens with Robert Habeck and Annalena Baerbock seem, everyone must see that they would also agree to a government alliance with the left, said the CDU federal chairman.

"Experience shows that if they have a majority, then they will too."

Laschet added: "That is why it is important in this federal election that we are so strong that a red-red-green alliance does not rule in Germany."

Laschet called on the approximately 250 delegates at the party congress, who were mostly digitally connected, to concentrate on the competition with the Greens in the election campaign.

"Our message in contrast to the Greens is: We want to be a climate-neutral industrialized country, where people also have work and social cohesion is guaranteed."

The SPD mentioned Laschet only once - it had "long since given up the skilled workforce", which is why it was up to the CDU to secure jobs.

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At the state party conference, the CDU Rhineland-Palatinate list is to be chosen for the federal election.

The list proposed by the state board is headed by the state chairwoman and federal minister of agriculture, Julia Klöckner.

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