Federal election campaign
Habeck at the kitchen table: Tax the super rich for education
In his application for chancellor, he had already announced that he would visit interested citizens. A few weeks later, Robert Habeck is actually campaigning at the kitchen table.
Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck began his announced election campaign at German kitchen tables and met an educator. In a video, the Green Party’s top candidate for the federal election questions teacher Isabell in her kitchen about the situation in the daycare centers. She tells the Minister of Economic Affairs that it is everyday life for educators to be alone with 20 children. You can’t go to the toilet in this situation.
Habeck tries to respond to the woman during the conversation. “Hi! I’m Robert. Does that suit you?” he asks as he comes into the house and sits down at the table: “It’s really cool.” He asks questions about their stress and suggests that he has already felt at children’s birthday parties how strenuous it is to look after a group of children.
Four billion euros annually for daycare centers
Given the shortage of staff in daycare centers, it is probably not enough to extend the Daycare Quality Act by two years, says Habeck. “We actually have to invest massively in our education system. And if we dared to tax the super-rich in Germany a little bit – they don’t even notice it – but a little more, and use this money for education, then that would be it actually completely okay,” was the idea of the green leader. Specifically: four billion euros instead of the two billion previously estimated in the Kita Quality Act. “Not all of your problems would perhaps be solved, but a lot of them would be solved,” says Habeck to the hostess.
Habeck was chosen as a direct candidate for the election in his hometown in the Flensburg-Schleswig constituency on Saturday – expected to take place on February 23rd. In his application video for the Green Party’s candidacy for chancellor at the beginning of November, he asked citizens to invite him to their kitchen tables and tell him what concerns them in everyday life.
The four-minute long video with the teacher is the first of its kind on the 55-year-old’s social media channels. In her own words, Isabell responded to his application video because she was angry about her working conditions. Where the video was recorded and how long Habeck spoke to his interlocutor remained unclear.
Habeck has only recently become active on social media again, having said goodbye to Twitter (now X) and Facebook around six years ago.
dpa
Source: Stern
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