The WDR allows the North Rhine-Westphalian top candidates from the CDU and SPD to meet just where couples say yes. No wonder it doesn’t turn into a duel.
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Jana Stegemann, Dusseldorf
In the TV duel before the elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, there was such trusting agreement between the two opponents that the 75 minutes of broadcasting time dragged on and completely different questions inevitably came up when watching. Why is Thomas Kutschaty, the challenger from the SPD, actually standing on a gray wooden pedestal? And in what kind of a strange setting did the WDR bring him and the CDU incumbent Hendrik Wüst there? Is that a tomb? A ruined castle? A wine cellar? And why only?