“Maischberger”: “They brought all the knives to the table and distributed plenty of poison beforehand” | EUROtoday

Who is chargeable for the break within the visitors mild coalition? Chancellor Olaf Scholz discovered a transparent wrongdoer in his speech on the dismissal of Christian Lindner final week. He accused the previous finance minister of quite a lot of issues: “Too typically, Federal Minister Lindner blocked legal guidelines in a non-expert method. Too typically he has used small-minded celebration political ways. He has damaged my belief too many instances.”

Was the Chancellor too harsh? The former ZDF presenter Theo Koll has clear words about this with Maischberger: “The fact that a chancellor stands up and speaks so badly about his finance minister is an absolute no-go.” Comedian Michael Mittermeier and Kerstin Palzer from ARD discussed with him -Capital City Studio, which Koll agreed with. When dealing with the break-up of the coalition, she spoke of “War of the Roses” airs: “It is a really broken relationship, people no longer allow themselves the black under their fingernails.”

This may be why the guests do not come to a clear conclusion when it comes to the question of guilt. Koll, for example, sees all three people involved in the government as responsible: “They had brought all the knives to the table and had previously distributed plenty of poison.” According to the guests, there were repeated disagreements over a long period of time, which ultimately led to failure. The Free Democrats’ latest economic plan is also discussed: “Lindner also knew that: if he plays it out like that, the SPD can no longer go along with it, and the Greens can no longer go along with it either. “It was a start-up process,” says Palzer with certainty. The journalist also believes she knows how the current escalation could have been prevented and when the perfect time would have been to question the three-party alliance again from the parties’ perspective: “A new coalition agreement should have been made after the start of the Ukraine war “. Palzer could be right: until recently, the financing of aid to Ukraine remained a point of contention within the coalition.

It is the only mistake that the former finance minister himself admits to Maischberger, although not at the outbreak of war. “I should have said more decisively: We have to renegotiate the coalition agreement,” said Lindner, referring to the Constitutional Court ruling from last year, which stated that funds for the fight against the Corona crisis must not be used for climate protection. But that is now behind us: “I have now mentally processed it and I feel rather liberated,” says the former finance minister about the loss of his position. When Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier handed him the certificate of dismissal, he was already thinking about next year’s election campaign. Lindner’s appearance at Maischberger doesn’t sound like the pain of loss. Even if he emphasizes that it did not have to end in a final break: “I would have found it better to say together: Our political positions are not compatible and that is why the cooperation ends and we go before the sovereign together.” The parliamentary majority would then have continued to exist, as would the caretaker government – the only question that remains is what else should have been agreed upon.

Between Scholz’s remaining options of “abandoning the debt brake or being fired”, he then decided on his convictions, said the liberal. However, he does not see any complicity in the failure, which Sandra Maischberger accuses him of, for example in the form of too harsh demands in the FDP economic plan from the beginning of November. From this almost untouchable position, he makes it easy for himself to remain active in politics: he does politics out of conviction and offers his party the opportunity to lead it back into the election campaign. But he doesn’t want to go all the way to the top: “I’m ruling out a candidacy for chancellor,” says Lindner, to which a laughing Sandra Maischberger replied, “At least that is one.”

We had to wait in vain for Lindner to counter Olaf Scholz’s personal attacks. Even though the moderator tried time and again to elicit at least one negative statement from the politician about the current chancellor, Lindner was rather unimpressed: “I believe that democracy is not just the word for the rule of the people, but is democracy also a certain form of behavior”.

Why observe up? Why such a political wrangling began after the dismissal is a official query. For the top of politics at RTL and n-tv, Nikolaus Blome, who discusses the failure on the finish of the present along with his podcast accomplice and “Der Freitag” writer Jakob Augstein, that is additionally because of the election marketing campaign that has already begun: “This is about the sovereignty of interpretation. The question of who actually screwed up, who does the citizen blame, will have a massive influence on the outcome of the election.” In any case, for Augstein the scenario is unworthy: “A Rocky Horror Picture Show”. Given the upcoming federal election marketing campaign, it’s unlikely that this present will finish quickly.