Chancellor special: Who wins the TV duel of the top candidates?

Chancellor special: Who wins the TV duel of the top candidates?

In the most exciting TV debate before the Bundestag election, the leading candidates for Chancellor meet on February 16, 2025. In the RTL program "Quadrell", Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD), the Union Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU), Alice Weidel (AfD) and Robert Habeck (Greens) will present their positions directly on TV. This four -round round replaces the originally planned duel between Scholz and Merz, which was motivated by the increasing survey values and growing political tensions, such as oe24.at reported.

The moderation is particularly remarkable by the well-known RTL presenter Pinar Atalay and the popular Günther Jauch, who inspires many spectators. Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW), Christian Lindner (FDP) and Gregor Gysi (Die Linke) start with their statements at 7 p.m. The election campaign is strongly influenced by the surveys in which the Union is clearly in the first place - far before the SPD, such as Aschaffenburg, the campaign situation proves to be particularly tense and the formats must take into account the new circumstances, as the media reported.

This search for a new concept also shows that earlier TV duels mostly took place in the form of a three-way battle between the strongest parties. With the quadrell, the multi -layered political landscape of Germany becomes visible and the candidates will have the opportunity to comprehensively defend their positions in a direct exchange of blows.