Federal election
Scholz calls speculation about Moscow trip “indecent”
A Chancellor trip to Moscow during the election campaign? A CDU politician speculates about it. Scholz answers him with sharp words.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) sharply rejected CDU politician Roderich Kiesewetter’s speculations about a possible trip to Moscow during the election campaign. “This is a false claim, you shouldn’t do something like that, it’s deeply indecent, there is no evidence for it,” he said in Berlin. “That’s why I think even sincere people can be outraged when false allegations are made.”
Kiesewetter wrote on the social network X on Saturday: “We have to prepare for an election campaign surprise.” There are increasing indications that “Chancellor Scholz is traveling to Moscow or meeting Putin before February 23rd.” Government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit has already announced legal action against Kiesewetter because of this.
In November, Scholz spoke to Putin on the phone for the first time in almost two years, causing anger in Ukraine and also among Eastern European NATO partners. The Chancellor was last in Moscow a few days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
dpa
Source: Stern
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