Germany politics

AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) co-leader

12 Jan 2025 (approx) 3 3

Tino Chrupalla

Inserted 1 week ago

“Now we have to leave the 20 percent mark behind us and continue to climb.”

AfD co-leader

11 Jan 2025 2 4

Friedrich Merz

Inserted 1 week ago

“We are ready to take responsibility for our country, but we also know that things cannot continue as they have for the last three years.”

Chairman of Germany's center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU)

11 Jan 2025 1 4

Aurel Eschmann

Inserted 1 week ago

“According to the Political Parties Act, which was reformed at the beginning of 2024, election advertising by third parties is considered a party donation. The interview is expected to be played out much more broadly than posts from regular users. In this respect, one can definitely speak of political advertising here, because platform X usually sells such a reach for a lot of money.”

Campaigner at German NGO Lobby Control

09 Jan 2025 6 3

Alice Weidel

Inserted 1 week ago

“We have this insane, wokeish, socialist, leftist agenda in our educational system. So, the young people, they don't learn anything in school, university. They just learn about gender studies.”

AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) co-leader

09 Jan 2025 5 4

Olaf Scholz

Inserted 2 weeks ago

“The crucial thing is that Mr. Musk has supported a partly right-wing extremist party [AfD] and, as you can see, is not only acting in that direction in this country. And that is something we not only disagree with, I completely reject that. It is not the first time the SDP, his own party, had to defend themselves against rich entrepreneurs. What is certainly new is the fact that it is a global media entrepreneur. What is certainly new is the fact that with algorithms, it is not certain how opinion is formed, which is organised by the structures of these systems.”

Chancellor of Germany

05 Jan 2025 7 4

Friedrich Merz

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“The AfD's anti-EU stance and their proposed exit from the European Union would ruin the German economy. Musk should not forget, that it was the AfD that voiced the strongest opposition to building his Tesla factory in Germany.”

Chairman of Germany's center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU)

30 Dec 2024 8 6

Lars Klingbeil

Inserted 3 weeks ago

“Elon Musk is attempting nothing less than Vladimir Putin. Both Putin and Musk want to see anti-democratic forces succeed in the elections, causing Germany to be plunged into chaos.”

SPD (Social Democrats) Secretary-General

30 Dec 2024 (approx) 4 4

Olaf Scholz

Inserted 1 month ago

“The election will determine whether we, as a strong country, dare to invest strongly in our future; do we have confidence in ourselves and our country, or do we put our future on the line? Do we risk our cohesion and our prosperity by delaying long-overdue investments?”

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Chancellor of Germany

16 Dec 2024 1 4

Achim Wambach

Inserted 2 months ago

“Germany's problems are too big to tolerate political gridlock. The government set out to reconcile the transformation towards climate neutrality with economic growth and social security. It has not lived up to this claim. The economy is stagnating and investments are failing to materialize. This daunting task was compounded by geo-economic tensions: wars in Europe and the Middle East as well as economically damaging interventions through tariffs and national subsidy policies. The election of Donald Trump has exacerbated these problems. Europe must do more for its security and will have to reckon with increased tariffs.”

President of the ZEW and a professor of economics at the University of Mannheim

09 Nov 2024 7 3

Friedrich Merz

Inserted 2 months ago

“The coalition no longer has a majority in the German Bundestag, and we therefore call on the chancellor ... to call a vote of confidence immediately, or at the latest by the beginning of next week. We simply cannot afford to have a government without a majority in Germany for several months now, and then campaign for several more months, and then possibly conduct coalition negotiations for several weeks.”

Chairman of Germany's center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU)

07 Nov 2024 3 3

Olaf Scholz

Inserted 2 months ago

“The citizens will soon have the opportunity to decide anew how to proceed. That is their right. I will therefore put the vote of confidence to the Bundestag at the beginning of next year.”

Chancellor of Germany

07 Nov 2024 2 2

Lars Haider

Inserted 3 years ago

“He was elected because he is very similar to Angela Merkel - and that was his calculation. Just because Scholz is like Merkel, that does not mean Germany is headed for more of the same. Merkel was a reactive politician who responded to the political and public mood. Scholz is far more decisive. He has clear goals, and he puts things in place in order to achieve them [...]. If it doesn't work, he says: 'OK, next time I'll do it better'.”

Editor in chief of Hamburger Abendblatt and Scholz’s biographer

07 Dec 2021 2 3

Annalena Baerbock

Inserted 3 years ago

“Above all, there was a very trusting conversation, where we could talk openly about differences in order to find common paths and build bridges. In that, we succeeded.”

Germany's Green Party's co-leader

15 Oct 2021 0 2

Christian Lindner

Inserted 3 years ago

“Although a traffic light coalition at the national level is new to us we see an opportunity in this if such different parties can agree on common challenges and solutions.”

German politician - Leader of the Free Democratic party (FDP)

15 Oct 2021 1 2

Markus Söder

Inserted 3 years ago

“Olaf Scholz has the best chances to become chancellor. That's crystal clear. It is important to respect the result. Part of that is that I once again congratulate Olaf Scholz.”

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German politician - Leader of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria

28 Sep 2021 2 3

Christian Lindner

Inserted 3 years ago

“About 75% of Germans didn't vote for the next chancellor's party. So it might be advisable ... that the Greens and Free Democrats first speak to each other to structure everything that follows.”