TV review too “Anne Will”: Ziemiak in the major attack on Red-Red-Green – the one for Kühnert “big nonsense” is

While the TV triad between Armin Laschet (CDU), Olaf Scholz (SPD) and Annalena Baerbock (The Greens) is still running in the private competition, it is already being analyzed on ARD: “Voting in times of crisis – who do Germans trust in the Chancellery?” is the question in Anne Will’s first broadcast after the summer break. So it’s not about the corona pandemic, like all the months before on that talk show, yes: The word is at most occasionally dropped.

Who discussed?

How did the discussion go?

It has long been part of the job description of general secretaries in political parties to be loud, boisterous and provocative; intelligent can, but does not have to be. They fulfill the function that the comment columns on social media have today, which at the same time proves that this idea of ​​secretaries general comes from a time when politics primarily functioned analogously. Paul Ziemiak is happy to comply with this traditional description of the job. He currently warns of one at every opportunity “Left shift” after the federal election and does not hesitate to compare Die Linke with the communist rulers from Poland in the 1980s. He even goes so far as to have Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz in the SPD “have nothing to report at all”, a red-green-red government should only have an arithmetical majority of one vote after the election. Scholz is only one “vehicle” Ziemiak rants from left-wing forces such as party leader Saskia Esken or Kevin Kühnert, to which Kühnert replies that it does “big nonsense” is to be believed that with Chancellor Scholz one “communist tyranny” break out. Ziemiak’s desperate warning against a minister Esken doesn’t catch on either, because, as is well known, she is already on the black-red coalition committee today.

With the FDP, Kühnert and Özdemir are cautious

Otherwise, the Secretary General wants above all “talk about content”, but then only does it briefly, but at least says that the CDU has the right candidate for chancellor. Kühnert, in turn, reveals that he is hoping for a red-green majority after the federal election: “That is within reach”believes the SPD party vice. Anne Will asks him where he sees intersections between himself and Christian Lindner from the FDP. First he shrugs his shoulders: “Pfff.”

Cem Özdemir cannot imagine governing with the FDP either, he says, but he also considers the Left Party to be “not capable of governing foreign policy”. According to the Green politician, anyone who is not clear about the question of whether the Bundeswehr should now save people from Afghanistan does not want to govern this country. In the federal states, nothing speaks against alliances of left and green, says Özdemir, but: “I don’t see that in the Bund.” As expected, he evades the question of whether Robert Habeck would have been the better green candidate for chancellor. For this he is afraid to talk himself out by admitting: “We will not be able to prevent the climate crisis either”. Instead, Kevin Kühnert is trying to score points with climate policy and promises “as quickly as possible” wanting to get out of coal-fired power generation. But didn’t Olaf Scholz just defend the year 2038 as the year of the exit from coal energy?

In addition to the three gentlemen, there are also two journalists in the group, presumably for reasons of parity, who throw the balls at each other or sometimes contradict each other. Both say that Olaf Scholz mainly benefits from the weakness of his rivals, but only one of them thinks it would be a good idea to swap Annalena Baerbock for Robert Habeck and Armin Laschet for Markus Söder.

The special moment

unfortunately stayed away.

The knowledge in theses

Conclusion

In any case, surveys currently give a clear answer to the question of who the Germans trust the Chancellery. But that doesn’t say anything about majorities and coalitions after the federal election.