“Maybrit Illner” (ZDF): Robert Habeck puts Friedrich Merz in his place

Robert Habeck and Friedrich Merz meet at Maybrit Illner: Did the crash make an announcement?

Berlin – What else do you have to resign for in Germany? Four weeks before the general election, apparently for nothing. And if the CDU politician Friedrich Merz has his way, that’s basically “irrelevant”. Merz, whose self-confidence is unbroken despite two defeats in the bid for the party chairmanship, recently called for the resignation of SPD Foreign Minister Heiko Maas. In the broadcast of Maybrit Illner on ZDF nothing more can be heard, although he still sees Maas responsible for the disaster in Afghanistan. Was anyone here called back from above?

Instead, as is currently the standard in the German government, he tries to generalize by shifting responsibility onto the Western community of states.

“Maybrit Illner” (ZDF): Friedrich Merz stumbles

Of course, the mission, which is worse than “what the Americans experienced in Vietnam in 1975”, must be dealt with. When World Editor-in-Chief Dagmar Rosenfeld asked him whether it was right for him that the CDU and SPD rejected the Greens’ request for a deletion moratorium on files, files and other data carriers such as short messages, Merz came in for the first time that evening Stumble and get tangled up in contradictions. The rejection of the deletion moratorium is correct and the deletion of communication data, which is necessary for subsequent processing, is “unacceptable”. With which he basically approves of the Greens and their proposal.

The world editor-in-chief Dagmar Rosenfeld is particularly excited about the Chancellor. She criticizes Merkel for her meaningless government statement on the catastrophically failed mission in Afghanistan. Angela Merkel was grossly overrated. And she is absolutely right about that. Because with the phrase “in hindsight you are always smarter” Merkel has once again proven that nobody in the current government is prepared to take responsibility for his or her actions.

“Maybrit Illner” (ZDF): Robert Habeck rejects a coalition of the Greens and the Left

A government that nobody wants to be in does not need anyone, says the Green Party chairman Robert Habeck correctly. In this case, responsibility was thrown away like a “hot potato”. Habeck makes it clear that rescuing the people of Afghanistan is not a humanitarian gesture, but a moral obligation. These do not go out as soon as the troops have withdrawn. So were the numerous abstentions by the left in the vote on the subsequent Bundeswehr mandate for the evacuation of people from Afghanistan a mistake? With his answer that this behavior is “not governable”, Habeck gives a possible coalition of Greens and Left an indirect rejection.

The moral responsibility towards people is a point that Habeck comes back to again and again this evening. It is beneficial to see a politician on television who not only thrashes phrases and reports numbers, but understands the politician again for what it should be: a structure that serves the good of the community and not that of the economy. After the favorite question of all surveys, whether Markus Söder and Robert Habeck would not have been the better candidates for chancellor, the economic program of the parties is discussed. For this, the economic method Prof. Achim Truger is switched on.

“Maybrit Illner” (ZDF): Friedrich Merz seems know-it-all and grins

At the beginning, Habeck, who has been talking about the economic model of the Greens for a long time – maintaining the debt brake with the addition that debts may be borrowed for values of the state such as the expansion of the infrastructure – seems a bit insecure. The counter cuts to the face of Friedrich Merz, who repeatedly shakes his head knowingly and grins, reinforce this impression. In the end, however, Habeck clearly steps up and Merz, who seriously claims that the environmentalists are to blame for the inadequate expansion of the railway lines, is clearly skidding.

Again and again he is rebuked by Habeck that his objection is not correct. When Merz throws in to him that you are only going around in circles at this point, Habeck counters: “You are going around in circles, I will give you a precise answer.” He is absolutely right. Because in this program it was only the Green Party leader who gave concrete answers to current questions. In doing so, he has given the lie to all politicians who have called him technically incompetent and proven that the Greens are definitely ready to take on government responsibility. (Bettina Schuler)