CSU boss Markus Söder has stepped up in the dispute with the SPD over the historical role of the social democrats.

The fact is: whether it was linked to the West, joining NATO and the founding of the Bundeswehr under Konrad Adenauer and Franz Josef Strauss - the SPD was against it, said the Bavarian Prime Minister of the "Augsburger Allgemeine" (Tuesday).

“Oskar Lafontaine was also completely wrong with German unity.” Finally, the SPD was against the Stability Pact and instead called for a debt union in Europe.

"In this respect there is a lot of truth in the thesis."

Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet had told the SPD on Saturday at the CSU party congress in Nuremberg, in connection with economic and financial policy, that he was “always on the wrong side”.

The former SPD leader Sigmar Gabriel, meanwhile, considers a red-green-red coalition after the federal election to be very unlikely.

“Olaf Scholz is a social liberal, he has nothing to do with the left.

Neither Scholz nor the Greens will enter into an alliance with the left, ”he told the“ Rheinische Post ”(Tuesday).

Instead, Gabriel says he expects a traffic light coalition made up of the SPD, Greens and FDP.

"According to the current polls, only a traffic light coalition is possible."

Gabriel expects his party to win.

“If you are on the incline two weeks before the election, the decline will accelerate.

A lot would have to happen for another turnaround, ”he said, referring to the Union's survey results.

"In the end, many voters simply want to be with the winners."

The political scientist Karl-Rudolf Korte, however, considers the outcome of the federal election to be open.

“We will have an election evening with several chancellor options - not just one,” he told the “Rhein-Zeitung” (Tuesday).

It will be a historic election in which there could be two possible chancellors on election evening.

The question then is who can forge a government alliance.

"The second can also be the winner in the end if he can shape majorities."

Wissler: "We want to dissolve NATO"

On Monday evening, after the triumph of the Chancellor candidates, the top candidates of the four smaller parties FDP, Left, AfD and CSU had an exchange of blows on central political issues.

At the same time, in the ARD, sometimes incompatible positions, for example in foreign and security policy, pension, tax and climate policy, became clear.

The program with the title "The Four Fighting After the Triell" also showed that there is hardly any basis for an SPD-led federal government with the participation of the left.

This became evident in the area of ​​foreign and security policy.

Because while SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz demands a clear commitment to NATO from every possible coalition partner, the left chairman Janine Wissler said: "We want to dissolve NATO and transform it into a collective security alliance."