BW state election: Hagel speaks of dying threats in opposition to household – political scientist sees a transparent benefit with Özdemir | EUROtoday

For the primary time in 15 years, there might be a Prime Minister in Baden-Württemberg who shouldn’t be named Winfried Kretschmann. The 77-year-old won’t stand for re-election. Cem Özdemir is working for the Greens as a substitute. He and his social gathering have been lately in a position to considerably scale back the hole to the CDU, which was main within the polls and led by its prime candidate Manuel Hagel. There are indicators of a head-to-head race.

All occasions surrounding the state elections in Baden-Württemberg within the stay ticker:

3:50 p.m. – Hagel speaks of dying threats in opposition to his household

In an interview with “The Pioneer”, Hagel admitted to the query of whether or not it was true that he and his youngsters had acquired dying threats: “Unfortunately, yes – that’s new for us, even as a family. I didn’t know that before.”

The background is one other video during which Hagel clashes with a instructor whereas visiting faculty in entrance of the cameras. “I’m not a robot now, but a person with completely normal feelings,” the CDU frontman instructed the Welt broadcaster.

2:12 p.m. – Political scientist: Özdemir superb candidate, hail too pale

The political scientist Joachim Behnke sees the totally different perceptions of the highest candidates as a fundamental cause for the Greens’ features in surveys shortly earlier than the state elections. “Özdemir is the ideal candidate for the Greens because he is like Kretschmann. He can really appear as Kretschmann’s legitimate heir, which is important for voters who are not typical Green voters,” mentioned the political scientist from Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen in an interview with the “Schwäbische Zeitung”.

The CDU, then again, targeted totally on the subject of the financial system. “But she didn’t manage to market Manuel Hagel more strongly as a person. He remained too pale. We know that a large part of the population doesn’t even know him,” Behnke acknowledged and on the similar time emphasised that the beginning place of the CDU parliamentary group chief was tough: “In this respect, I think they have already gotten the most out of it.”

1:30 p.m. – Kretschmann criticizes CDU concepts: “Let’s do everything already”

From the attitude of Baden-Württemberg’s Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens), CDU prime candidate Manuel Hagel shouldn’t be exhibiting any new concepts for Baden-Württemberg within the election marketing campaign. In Hagel’s interviews, he at all times reads lengthy lists on the matters of AI, mobility, photonics, robotics and protection. “Then I’m always very surprised. We already do all that. And he was there,” mentioned Kretschmann on the finish of the Baden-Württemberg Green Party’s election marketing campaign in Ulm.