Anne Will didn’t have her guests under control. While Volker Bouffier was talking himself out, others urged honesty in different ways.
From Andrea Zschocher
It’s the old game, political talk shows set a topic before the start of the broadcast, which is then not dealt with at all in the broadcast. You can also accuse Anne Will to a large extent, her introductory question: “One week until the election – what is the climate worth to us?” was of course not answered. And even if a large part of the content was actually about climate protection, the accusation remains that Will filled this election broadcast with guests from the CDU, SPD, the Greens and the FDP, the fact check, which was used to classify what was said a week before Choice but would have been extremely valuable was left out. In view of the approaching election and with such a complex topic as climate protection, viewers should not rely on their feeling of what might be right, but should be presented with evidence-based facts. Where is the buzzer of the logo? Child reporters, when you really need them?
Guests at “Anne Will” were:
Saskia Esken (SPD), party leader
Cerstin Gammelin, journalist for the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” in Berlin
Robert Habeck (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), party chairman
Christian Lindner (FDP), party and parliamentary group chairman in the Bundestag
Volker Bouffier (CDU), Deputy Party Chairman and Prime Minister in Hesse
Unfair Volker Bouffier
Anne Will had a difficult time in her own show. Not only did Christian Lindner interrupt her several times because he felt he was misunderstood and misquoted by her, Volker Bouffier immediately stopped paying attention to her. She found it “unfair”, especially towards the other guests. This behavior, just chatting on until you think you’ve made the point, is also one that can cost votes from voters. Because the “Times up” movement rightly no longer stops at German politicians.
Of course, the election campaign is about promoting your own party. But ignoring everything that others could contribute to a talk show was extremely uncomfortable. Incidentally, Bouffier struck the same horn when he consistently addressed Saskia Esken as “Frau Eskens” and was deaf to corrections here as well. You can do it, but then rather shows the cliché of the old white man who dominated the German political talk show for years. To demand punctually for the federal election to “get faster” when it comes to climate protection is certainly not quite the right approach.
You can’t go on like this any more
After all, Bouffier made this admission that, in his eyes, things could not go on as before. Naturally, all the other politicians in the group saw the same thing.
There was one thing, however, that the deputy party chairman was right about. Climate policy does not work without people. He urged all measures and ideas to “maintain the trust”. For him, as well as for the FDP and the Greens, climate protection would only be possible, in various forms, with state help with simultaneous trust in innovations. While Christian Lindner almost reflexively wished for “prosperity and growth”, Robert Habeck made it clear that reaching the 1.5 degree target cannot be achieved without massive restrictions.
A time full of unreasonable demands
It will, he said, be a time “full of unreasonable demands”. But this honesty is needed in his eyes in order not to disappoint the voters. If the GroKo were to continue like this, politics would fail or lead to the breaking of a word. The plans are “doomed to failure if we don’t get into the pots.” Not an option for the Greens. And that, although their election manifesto is not enough to achieve the 1.5 degree target. “We are already the most ambitious,” said Habeck, pointing out that there is also hope for innovations. Here is a proximity to the FDP, which Christian Lindner was visibly pleased. It looked as if the first coalition negotiations were already being started here, also because Linder had already emphasized the similarities between the party programs.
Further topics:
- Robert Habeck explains The Greens politician intervened several times to classify what was said. The problem with this is that Robert Habeck is also campaigning. Only very few viewers can assess whether his classifications correspond to the facts.
- Journalist doubts honesty Cerstin Gammelin pointed out that the parties’ election programs did not match reality and pointed out that the social consensus would often be disregarded. Politicians should be much more honest and say: “It costs something and it also costs behavioral change.”
For the most part, this “Anne Will” program simply remained annoying because, on the one hand, the intermittent chatting made it impossible to understand anything at all. But also because the moderator did not do her job of moderating the talk. At the end of the program, the guests were simply turned off the microphone so that at least the moderation was still possible. After all, the hot phase of the election campaign is now through for “Anne Will”, she will only start again when the polling stations are closed next Sunday.
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