Chancellor Merz solutions questions from the viewers within the ARD Arena | EUROtoday

Friedrich Merz as soon as described his predecessor Olaf Scholz because the “plumber of power”. Two years later, he was requested by a winemaker from Worms: “Which craftsman would you compare yourself to?”

Merz, who’s normally so quick-witted, begins to ponder the primary query: “Bricklayer, gardener?” In the tip it’s the bricklayer: “When I say that about the bricklayer, I almost mean it a bit seriously, the foundation is there, but we have to rebuild essential parts of the house.”

“Cityscape”: That had “nothing to do with appearances”

The Federal Republic of Germany desires to renovate Merz, however that might take time, he admitted that night in Niederkassel on the Rhine. In the Arena Friedrich Merz, who promised loads in a short while, now not faces the residents. After seven months in workplace, the Chancellor is self-critical and says that governing is troublesome: “I admit, I’m not satisfied yet, but we’ve started.”

The Chancellor can be self-critical about his personal statements. Two months after the controversial “cityscape” debate he initiated, Merz says he would do it in a different way immediately: “I would like to emphasize this differentiation more strongly. And if you criticize that, then you are right where I may not have interpreted enough.” But he believes that everybody “who tried to understand it with a little good will” additionally understood what was meant. That has “nothing to do with appearances. Nothing at all to do with appearances.”

Merz: “My cold has become less and less”

War and peace, conscription, the state of affairs of restaurateurs or midwives, an absence of nation medical doctors, pensions – the questions requested of Chancellor Merz have been numerous. He did not have a definitive reply to all of them. But it additionally grew to become very basic when a citizen from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania mentioned to the Chancellor: “So I would like you to have more courage to make things clear, to state your goals and to actually expect something from us with the perspective that things will get better again and not to pay too much attention to special interests.”

How does Friedrich Merz think about Germany? What is his goal picture, how does he think about our society? Here, too, the Chancellor gave a solution: “We have to be, become and remain an efficient, democratic society based on the rule of law. For me, that is, so to speak, from an internal perspective. From an external perspective, we must be a country that defends its freedom and peace.”

Lots of questions, solely an hour of time – the Chancellor desires to ask himself once more: “We’d like to do it again, you’ve seen that my cold has become less and less.”