Federal election 2025: Scholz: “Fritze Merz likes to tell nonsense”

Compared to Hungarian politics, it was a smile, but in German it was unusually sharp, as the German Chancellor, who lost the vote of confidence, spoke about the leader of the CDU.

Robert Habeck presented his party's election campaign program in Berlin. The Greens are now "grounded in real life," he claims. The Union uses its program presentation to criticize Scholz. The Chancellor responds immediately. More in the live ticker.

Shortly after losing the vote of confidence, Chancellor Scholz personally attacked the CDU candidate for chancellor, Merz, on ZDF. This was promptly met with outraged reactions - including from Merz himself.

The Chancellor accuses the CDU leader of spreading nonsense about him - he objects to this. Before the election, the two will face each other in two TV debates, moderated by Günther Jauch, among others. The Greens are presenting their election program - now in a live stream.

Then he accused him of talking “nonsense”.

The candidates for chancellor wanted to treat each other with respect during the election campaign. There was little of this on ZDF: First, the chancellor accused the CDU leader of spreading "nonsense". His reaction was also clear.