So now Armin Laschet also has his professor, who is not from Heidelberg as it was when Angela Merkel first took office, but he is also from a well-known company.

Peter Neumann from King's College, as a member of the “future team” of the candidate for chancellor, is supposed to demonstrate how important internal and external security are to the Union.

In these fields, the CDU could have summoned some politicians who are better known in Germany than the terrorism researcher from London.

But Laschet, as most of the other names show, didn't just want to present people who had already been on talk shows a hundred times.

The accusation of “business as usual” would have been raised even louder than already.

A team with the warhorse Merz

But will this team (with the experienced warhorse Merz) manage to pull the stalled cart of Laschet's candidacy out of the polls? He doesn't have many trumps left to turn the tide. Laschet's last-minute offer called “Experts instead of experiments” stands for an attempt to move the election campaign away from the fixation on the candidates in the remaining three weeks. The experts should invite you to take a closer look at the challenges that Germany will have to face after September 26th.

The SPD, on the other hand, continues to rely on the German belief in a savior, to whom it ultimately owes its own resurrection. Isn't it also a miracle that Scholz silenced his party? The left at the top are now happy to leave the stage to the candidate in the knowledge that their hour will come when Scholz should actually lead the SPD back to the Chancellery. Those who vote for the SPD because they want Scholz would also get Esken, Walter-Borjans, Mützenich and Kühnert with him. Scholz could already present this future team as proudly as Laschet his team. But of course the SPD does not want to risk falling below twenty percent again.