In the ARD “election arena”, Union chancellor candidate Armin Laschet spoke about the legalization of cannabis and spending on development cooperation.
Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet has spoken out in favor of increasing spending on development cooperation.
In the ARD “Wahlarena” he pointed out that spending had already risen in recent years, and then said: “I think we have to keep working on this 0.7 percent target.” With this, however, he showed a slight weakness of facts: Development Minister Gerd Müller (CSU) announced last April, citing OECD figures, that Germany had met this target for the second time after 2016 last year.
In 1970, the international community set itself the goal that rich countries should spend 0.7 percent of their gross national income (GNI) on economic and social support for poorer countries. The GNI is the sum of the income generated by all residents of a country in one year, regardless of whether this was earned in Germany or abroad. Until 1999 people spoke of the gross national product (GNP).
Laschet positively emphasized that the incumbent federal government always increased spending on development cooperation whenever it had spent more money on the military, for example on the Afghanistan mission. But one must continue to strive “in every budget that we do not forget the one world”.
Laschet also spoke out against the legalization of cannabis on the show. He showed understanding for the corresponding demand. “But even in my family I know people who started with light drugs – it used to be hash or something else – and who then became really drug addicts and became very sick.” That’s why he is in favor of being careful and not legalizing cannabis. When asked whether he had already smoked pot himself, a clear “no” came from the Union’s candidate for chancellor.
Like the Greens’ Chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock and SPD applicant Olaf Scholz before, the CDU chairman only answered questions from viewers in the 75-minute program. These ranged from climate protection and the end of lignite mining in Lusatia to the ban on blood donation for homosexuals and the problems of a farmer with breeding sows by importing piglets from abroad.
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