Three findings of the TV square
Two hours of square are around. Our colleagues Lisa Becke, Julius Betschka, Nico Fried, Miriam Hollstein, Veit Medick and Jan Rosenkranz watched intensively and were hot. Here are three of their findings of the TV square:
It was a much better evening for the Chancellor than the duel last week. His appearance had a clarity that he rarely showed. Scholz dominated the topics, managed to talk about his core topics again and again, tax relief, stable pensions, wages. There were also worlds between the Quadrell and his appearance a week ago. Scholz, usually the personified monotony, even varied in tone. Alice Weidel was particularly noticeable. “Only hot air!” Come out of her mouth, the Chancellor of the AfD boss threw. He stood next to the desk, was poisonous, then again state -supporting. I don’t give the choice yet, that was the signal. Comes a little late. In seven days it will be chosen whether this appearance will change the dynamics of the final phase again is rather unlikely. But his party has been longing for a sign of life by the Chancellor for weeks – this evening it came. Anyway.
Merz mainly has a message this evening: never with them!
Merz also used his last words of the evening on the AfD: again, he ruled out together with the party after the election. There is only a real political turnaround with him. Consequently, this evening culminated in which Merz struggled to build up the greatest possible distance from the right -wing radical AfD.
Merz got it in with the joint coordination with the party in the Bundestag. He sowed doubts about his stability. To dispel them, he worked on Alice Weidel: “You are a right -wing radical party.” And he also cannot be said by an American vice president “who to speak here in Germany.” Rumms. What a announcement in Washington after Vice President JD Vance in Munich had advertised at the security conference for an end to the fire wall.
The biggest loser of the evening: the climate
First the good news: the discussion almost objectively went over long distances. Many topics came up, including beyond migration: war and peace in Ukraine, taxes, pension, economy, living. Only one topic has been canceled: the climate. Sure, the green Habeck, it almost secretly got into the debate in two places – but otherwise there was silence in the dying forest. The quadrrell was by no means inglorious exception, it only continued a trend that showed itself throughout the election campaign: the topic is not interested. In the short term, this is above all a problem for Habeck and the Greens. In the long term for all of us.
Source: Stern
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