Before the Bayern election: So ran the duel between Söder and Kohnen

A duel always involves two opponents, that much seems certain. For the rest, you have to make a little: In Bavaria, the Greens lie in the opinion polls before the SPD, most recently with 17 percent compared to 11 percent. The Bayerischer Rundfunk has therefore decided that the green leading candidate Ludwig Hartmann may deny the traditional TV duel against the Prime Minister Markus Söder.

In the tube Natascha Kohnen, top candidate of the SPD, which so far represents the strongest opposition faction in the state parliament. Her party calls the decision of the BR "absurd", but so far it does not look as if Kohnen and Söder be seen in TV-two format.

Suddenly an event wins weight, which the "Nürnberger Nachrichten" broadcasted on this Tuesday evening via livestream: Söder versus Kohnen, the two former people's parties, 90 minutes long, in a traditional Nuremberg restaurant, moderated by the two editors-in-chief of the newspaper. Realization of the evening: Such a format would have been heard on television.

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Election duel in Nuremberg

Kohnen starts with the crisp quotes on the Maassen case. "He had to go," says the SPD woman, Maaßen have gekungelt with the AfD. Maaßens promotion could not provide them. Therefore: "I no longer consider this Federal Minister of the Interior acceptable."

Söder comes on stage shortly thereafter, saying, "I find this whole debate difficult." Instead of discussing a personality for weeks, one should "govern in common and not chop each other".

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It's also Söder who upholds the friendlier tone, Kohnen attacks, she's the challenger, even though Söder recently denied having any serious antagonism to his job. Söder appeals to the common, asks the audience: "Do you want left wing and right wing in the state parliament?"

Kohnen scores points by holding up the CSU's "negligent rhetoric" about refugees. Then follow the classic themes: the housing shortage, the "social question of our time" and the changing world of work. Söder relies on internal security: "The police are the good guys, the criminals are the bad guys."

Bob Dylan against Franz Josef Strauss

Kohnen gets into a swim when the editors-in-chief ask her which three qualities she likes about Söder. She can not think of anything, she remains in the mocking mode. She blasphemes on the poster by Franz Josef Strauss, which hung Söder in the youth room. She, on the other hand, had her on the wall in her Bob Dylan. "I'm still waiting for the three good qualities," says Söder.

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Kohnen and Söder

The CSU man is the second to answer the tricky question, an advantage. He really praises Kohnen: "The first thing I like about her is her fighting spirit." She appeared as a non-Fränkin in the Franconian carnival. And: "She is a very intelligent lady." Kohnen tries again, comes out "cunning" and "power-oriented".

For this, she later tells how she relaxes with her family in the evening while Söder leads his beer tent performances during the relaxation question. In the audience round, a few solid comments from the audience follow, the two answer in succession, somehow Grand Coalition, even if they will probably not be koalieren.

According to the polls, the AfD will move after the Bayern election on October 14 in the state legislature, the BR and the other TV makers will have to ask many questions: rounds with the AfD, without the AfD? How weight the topics, how to allocate speaking time in the talk shows with possibly seven factions, how to intervene in inflammatory utterances?

The two-way dispute of the two (former) People's parties is certainly not a format of yesterday.

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