According to scientists, it is not demonstrable that the fiercely criticized laugh of 2021 in the flood area at that time had an impact on the subsequent Bundestag election.
According to scientists, it is not demonstrable that the fiercely criticized laugh of 2021 in the flood area at that time had an impact on the subsequent Bundestag election.
After the flood disaster in the Ahrtal, the then CDU Chancellor candidate Laschet allowed himself a laugh during a visit to the crisis region. In the Bundestag election two months later, the Union must take its historically worst election result. Laschets Fauxpas is not supposed to have done so.
What impact did the image of the laughing candidate for chancellor Armin Laschet have on the 2021 Bundestag election after the Ahrtalflut? Scientists from the universities of Mainz and Frankfurt come to a clear assessment.