German elections, D – 12: Armin Laschet presents his “100 days” program – Le Monde

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On Monday, the day after the second televised debate between him and his opponents Olaf Scholz (SPD) and Annalena Baerbock (Greens), the CDU-CSU candidate Armin Laschet presented the priority projects that he would open during the first hundred days of his mandate in the event of victory on September 26. Made up of 19 points, this “program for the immediate” (Sofortprogramm) is aimed primarily at families, who are promised in particular tax breaks and increases in benefits.

Security also occupies an important place, with a plan to install 1,000 video surveillance cameras per year and the creation of a “national security council”, attached to the Federal Chancellery, in order to better coordinate foreign policy and defense of the country.

When it comes to climate protection, Armin Laschet promises to tackle, as soon as he comes to power, the bureaucratic obstacles that hamper the approval process for projects linked to sustainable development.

These measures are not new. They appear in the CDU-CSU electoral program, which was released before the summer. At the time, the presentation of this one had been a fiasco, most observers having pointed out its lack of ambition, the absence of new ideas and its very great degree of generality.

“It is a program which sounds sympathetic to the ears of our voters because a copy of our own program, less ambitious and less complete”, quipped the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (FDP), Christian Lindner.

Fifteen days before the election, this “repackaging” of the program in the form of a plan for the “100 days” – which is more reminiscent of an American president than of a German chancellor – is above all an act of communication by the government. part of a candidate who intends to convince that the victory of the CDU, after the sixteen years in power of Angela Merkel, would not be synonymous with stagnation.

Monday, a few hours after the presentation of this plan, a new survey by the INSA institute credited the SPD with 26%, the CDU-CSU with 20.5% and the Greens with 15% of the votes.

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