“The polls show that is currently being brought more and more acceptance than all of my competitors together,” said Merz, the Newspapers of the Funke media group. “I am determined to win this vote.” The CDU Chairman of North Rhine apply in addition to the Merz-Westphalia’s Prime Minister Armin Laschet and the foreign politician Norbert Röttgen.

Merz also praised again the work of Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Corona-crisis. “Some of their decisions I see today is very critical. But I also see that Angela Merkel has the qualities you must have as head of government in a crisis: nervous strength, concentration, an eye for the Possible.”

“No latent racism in the police”

resistance to Merz of the SPD to speak-Head of Saskia esque, racism in America, you can’t compare with the one in Germany, Merz. “I consider it inadmissible to transfer the images from America on a one-to-one to Germany,” said Merz, the Newspapers of the Funke media group. There is in the United States systemic racism. “The Americans have not resolved since the abolition of slavery, the Problem of racial discrimination, until today, really. In Germany, there is no in this Form – and there is also no latent racism in the police.”

the violent death of The African-American George Floyd, on 25. May, during a police operation in the USA has triggered in the United States and internationally, a debate about racism and police violence. SPD-Head of Saskia esque had told the Newspapers of the Funke media group: “in Germany there is a latent racism in the ranks of the security forces, which have to be detected through measures of Internal governance and fight.”

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