Elections in Germany: before the second televised debate, the suspense remains unresolved
The three main candidates for the German chancellery, the green Annalena Baerbock, Armin Laschet, of the CDU, and Olaf Scholz, of the SPD, in the first televised debate.
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Germany votes in two weeks.
Long-awaited elections which will be marked by the departure of Angela Merkel after 16 years at the head of the country.
Suspense has never been so important.
Berliners gave their opinion to RFI, ahead of the second televised debate organized this Sunday, September 12.
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From our correspondent in Berlin
,
Pascal Thibaut
The Social Democrats of the SPD, led by Olaf Scholz, have made a spectacular rise in the polls over the past month.
As for the Christian Democrats of the CDU, they are struggling with a candidate, Armin Laschet, not very popular.
And the Greens, led by Annalena Baerbock, have declined significantly since the spring.
These three candidates meet on Sunday, September 12 for a second televised debate.
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“
Laschet made mistakes.
When you think of the floods where we saw him laughing while President Steinmeier gave a speech, it doesn't convince.
Olaf Scholz
,
he is the phlegmatic Hamburger, calm and collected.
A bit like Angela Merkel, who managed business well for Germany and for Europe,
”analyzes this Berliner.
"Laschet gives the impression of being more human"
“
I find Laschet the nicest.
He gives the impression of being more human.
The media broke him because he laughed at the wrong time.
We talk about it too much.
It hurts his popularity and I find that unfair.
The green candidate Baerbock, I can't stand her.
She's not as likeable as a woman might be.
She looks really tough,
”said this Berliner, who will not vote for any of the three candidates anyway.
For our third interlocutor, it is the same thing: none of the three main candidates will have their vote.
For me, the Liberal Party and its head of the list Christian Lindner are the most convincing.
Among the three, the least worst is the SPD.
The Greens and the CDU, we forget.
Baerbock's step back makes sense, given the way she acts.
The same goes for the CDU.
Either way, they picked the wrong chancellor candidate
.
Olaf Scholz is the one who argued the best in the first debate, even if I don't like his party.
I am in real estate and the Social Democrats want to freeze rents.
It makes no sense.
The televised debate will undoubtedly bring its share of lessons, two weeks before this historic election in the Bundestag, the first without candidacy of Angela Merkel for two decades.
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