Berlin – “A beautiful country at this time,” sings a woman with long hair languidly into the camera. “There is a new departure far and wide,” continues a second. Goosebumps are guaranteed when listening to the green election commercial. Nevertheless, the party did itself a disservice this summer with the video. Immediately after the flood disaster, her boisterous reinterpretation of the German folk song was not so well received. For a humorous adaptation of friendly get-togethers on mild summer evenings in the great outdoors, the time was extremely poorly chosen.
You can counter it with Armin Laschet’s “My father was a miner”. The CDU candidate and North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Laschet says in the video that he has closed the last mine, but he knows what change means before he gets to the core, Germany should remain an industrialized country – but climate-neutral. The message: this man knows what he’s doing. Or you can follow Olaf Scholz, who is walking through the government district. Meanwhile, former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt can be heard taking his oath of office in the 1970s, while Scholz acts as a go-getter – but socially.
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