The CDU has called on the SPD to renounce a controversial campaign spot. The accusation: A religious confession is being misused to campaign against others. In the spot, a matryoshka doll can be seen, from which one CDU politician after another appears. “Whoever chooses Armin Laschet and the CDU, chooses…a voice says. To the puppet with the likeness of the CDU economic politician Friedrich Merz, the voice continues to say” … a policy that makes the rich richer and the poor poorer”. To the doll with the face of ex-President of the Protection of the Constitution Hans-Georg Maaßen, the sentence is supplemented with “… Candidates who push the CDU to the right”.
Next comes a doll with the likeness of the head of the State Chancellery of Düsseldorf and Laschet intimus Nathanael Liminski. Here the sentence is supplemented with”… arch-Catholic Laschet confidants for whom sex before marriage is taboo”. This alludes to a statement by the professing Catholic Liminski, which he described in 2007 in the ARD program “Maischberger” as a “personal decision”. Liminski was still a student at the time. On the show, he also spoke out “against any kind of artificial contraception.”
CDU General Secretary Paul Ziemiak said: “We have imagined differently the commitments of the SPD to a fair election campaign.”Apparently it was a” new style of the SPD”. Their leading candidate Olaf Scholz must now explain “whether he wants to continue to abuse religious affiliation, belonging to the Catholic faith for a campaign in the election campaign”. The film also caused great outrage among the population.
The German Bishops ‘ Conference was also critical. Dealing with an expression of a religious conviction is “inappropriate,” said a spokeswoman for the editorial network Germany. “We are campaigning for a fair election campaign, which should be carried out on the basis of factual issues and in the debate with the election programmes.«
In an interview with RTL West, Laschet himself spoke on Monday evening. According to the RTL regional window, Laschet said: “I was surprised by the methods Olaf Scholz is now using to campaign.«
