Election campaign of the Union in the Bundestag: In an absolute mood of alarm

If even Chancellor Merkel has to give the loud election campaigner, one thing is clear: the Union is more than alarmed. Candidate Laschet’s aggressive criticism of his competition didn’t help either.

Today it must also have become clear to the last one: the Union has its back against the wall – oh what: in the wall. How else can it be explained that the hitherto moderate Chancellor, who has hardly ever distinguished herself as an aggressive election campaigner, is waving red socks in the Bundestag as if she were CDU General Secretary? The pressure on Angela Merkel to finally take a stand for the decidedly unpopular Union Chancellor candidate and actively advertise must have been immense. And Merkel, too, must have finally realized that she can no longer remain silent.

But whether she herself is convinced that “the best way for Germany is a Union-led federal government with Armin Laschet as Chancellor, which will stand for measure and middle”? When many people think that the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia is not so much moderation and moderation as, at best, mediocrity?

The situation is becoming more and more alarming

Even Laschet’s committed, militant speech does little to change this. He will have known that another low on the downward Laschet scale was reached in a recent survey: the Union slipped below 20 percent, Laschet only trust nine percent of the Chancellery – the situation is becoming more and more alarming for the CDU and CSU .

And so he boldly attacked the SPD chancellor candidate Scholz, fought a battle of words with the Greens candidate Baerbock and tried to resolve the dilemma of why, after 16 such good years as chancellor, a decade of modernization with him at the top is needed.

There was almost nothing except criticism of the competition

Too bad that he worked so hard on his direct competitors that there was hardly any time left for his own accents. Greens as climate protection-fixated destroyers of industry and jobs, the SPD as irresponsible debt makers and tax hikers: Laschet drew a picture of the situation in Germany as if the downfall of the West was imminent – when the Union is no longer on the government bench.

It’s pretty poor. From a candidate of a party that calls themselves the People’s Party, one expects something more than a commitment to the automotive industry, a warning of clan crime or the ole bugbear of red-green-red.

So what is left after this gig? The Union has obviously decided to conduct a fearful election campaign for the last few days. Your own fear of a loss of power and falling into insignificance in the opposition must truly be great.