Angela Merkel was a guest in the employee wing of the Christian Democrats in Dortmund – so, ironically, in a SPD stronghold. It is the first of 50 planned campaign appearances, the Chairperson of the CDU.
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Merkel goes into the election campaign
Still six weeks until the election: It will also start for the CDU, the Chairman of time, officially in the election campaign, but their performances on the world stage the past few months, or at the Wagner festival in July, in Bayreuth is sure to have been part of it.
Now the small West case, hall 2 in Dortmund was the Podium for the Chancellor. Merkel was a guest at the Christian Democratic workforce (CDA). 800 listeners were in the hall, as Merkel’s previous successes in the fight against unemployment praised and a further halving of the number of people without a Job announced: full employment by the year 2025. So it is also in the electoral program of the Union.
Criticism of the automotive industry
Also on the Diesel scandal, Merkel went on: “large parts of the automotive industry have playful incredible confidence,” said the CDU leader to the pleasure of the party audience and demanded by the managers more involvement in the development of the technologies of the future.
Speaker Merkel: joy with altdamen joke
As an example, you called Autonomous Parking – but rather jokingly: “Who can’t Park so well, you can try it today automatically. I am speaking especially to the men,” tried to the Chancellor to provide a altdamen joke at the Conservatives for joy.
The SPD’s push for a Europe-wide quota for electric cars Merkel rejected. You do not think that the quota for E-cars is carefully considered, the Chancellor said, to the proposal, with her SPD Challenger, Martin Schulz, was on Friday forged ahead. Otherwise, you took a blow to your adversary in its 40-minute speech any other page. Schulz, don’t upgrade, seemed to Merkel to be tactics in Dortmund, where, in General, social Democrats electoral victories to celebrate.
Probably the themes of the CDU sensor
Nonetheless, Merkel called on her party to a lively election campaign. “We must advertise, we must fight, we must stand up for our concerns,” she said, and spoke of a “special feeling in the moment”. On the one hand, Germany is well situ-ated, on the other hand, many people felt also uncertainty.
Choice of a place to fight small West case is hall 2: A Chancellor and 800 listeners in the hall
Observers had at Merkel’s speech in Dortmund, but the impression that does not want to keep the CDU-Chef in this specification to more liveliness. On the website of the “süddeutsche Zeitung” says, Merkel held her speech in her “typical, cumbersome Sound”. “Spiegel Online” writes: “No attacks, no conflicts.” And after the impression of the German press Agency it was a feel-good themes of the CDU.
SPD wants a tougher approach
The social Democrats announced in return for a harder line against the Chancellor. “The time for Mrs Merkel is over,” said SPD parliamentary leader Thomas Oppermann the Berlin “Tagesspiegel”. Up to election day on 24. September will confront the SPD, the CDU Chairman of the “day-to-day with the challenges and problems of our country, but also with the opportunities that she has playful”. Merkel resting for years on the economic Successes that were based on the reforms of her SPD predecessor, Gerhard Schröder, said Oppermann.
But the Chancellor must make in the face of these attacks, your coalition partner, not to Worry. In surveys, the Union parties and Merkel are stable before the social Democrats and their Chancellor candidate, Martin Schulz. The Union is in the polls between 37 and 40 percent, the SPD between 23 and 25 percent.
AR/jj (AFP, dpa, sueddeutsche.de, spiegel.de)