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Chancellor Olaf Scholz has accused CDU chief Friedrich Merz of spreading untruths about him. “Fritze Merz likes to tell nonsense,” stated Scholz that night on ZDF’s “heute journal”. Tünkram is Low German and means one thing like silly stuff or nonsense. Scholz was referring to criticism from Merz that the Chancellor usually sits in silence at EU summits with out getting concerned politically. In the Bundestag within the afternoon, Merz stated that the best way the Chancellor was shifting within the EU was “shaming.”

Scholz continued to say about Merz: “That won’t be the only thing where he behaves like that. He has shown it many times and will continue to show it many times in the election campaign. The citizens will figure it out.”

Merz reacted angrily in the identical broadcast. “I ask that the Federal Chancellor refer to me personally and attack me in this way. But that is obviously a pattern that we are seeing now.” Merz cited for example that Scholz had additionally denied FDP chief Christian Lindner’s “moral maturity” for a authorities workplace within the Bundestag within the afternoon. “He talks about respect all the time. But the moment someone disagrees with him, his respect stops. “I won’t go to this level,” stated Merz.

Merz continued: “I expect this respect in our dealings with each other so that at the end of the day our democracy does not suffer any more damage than it has already suffered under the government that has just fallen apart.”

However, Merz had already attacked Scholz personally on the weekend and wrote that Scholz was remoted within the EU. “Unfortunately, you have to put it this way: the majority of European heads of state and government simply no longer want to meet the German Chancellor, who either sits in silence for hours or lectures the world.”