In Berlin, the election for the House of Representatives on September 20th is getting closer and closer. For the parties, this means that in the final stretch of the election campaign, there is only one week left to convince the voters. In the days before the election there are a whole series of campaign events. A selection:
Monday: The Berlin SPD is getting reinforcements from the federal government. Defense Minister Boris Pistorius will meet on Monday afternoon with Economics Senator Franziska Giffey, who is running for election to the House of Representatives in the Neukölln district of Rudow.
The joint election campaign event with her party colleague Pistorius will focus on security and defense policy issues. In the late afternoon, Pistorius wants to visit the Resilience Technology Campus in the south of Berlin with SPD leading candidate Steffen Krach. It deals with similar topics, especially security-related technologies.
Tuesday: The Left is campaigning in the afternoon with seasoned, long-time politicians under the motto “Silver curls for Elif”. The two left-wing Bundestag members Gregor Gysi and Dietmar Bartsch as well as the former Bundestag Vice-President Petra Pau have announced their participation in the rally with Left Party top candidate Elif Eralp in Berlin-Marzahn.
Also in the afternoon, the Association of Berlin Merchants and Industrialists invites you to a discussion in Berlin-Tiergarten with the top candidates from the CDU and the Greens, Stefan Evers and Bettina Jarasch. It's about one of the most controversial topics in the election campaign: the future of Tempelhofer Feld. Should there be peripheral development or not?
Wednesday: The Berlin FDP has invited the party's federal chairman, Wolfgang Kubicki. He comes to Berlin-Zehlendorf to "start the final spurt" and meets Berlin's FDP top candidate Christoph Meyer, who wants to lead the Liberals back into the state parliament.
The top candidates will have another opportunity to present their positions to a larger audience in the evening. You are a guest at the “Wahlarena” of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB). The station shows the 90-minute panel discussion directly after the “Tagesschau”. According to the RBB, top candidates from parties who have a realistic chance of entering the House of Representatives will answer questions from Berliners.
Thursday: CDU top candidate Stefan Evers meets with Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the CDU party headquarters in the late afternoon. The event for the joint final sprint of the election campaign in the Konrad-Adenauer-Haus is about the topic “Keeping extremists away from power.” Merz and Evers want to make it clear what the CDU is promoting: for centrist politics, for security, economic strength and social cohesion.
In the evening, the “Tagesspiegel” invites you to a discussion with top candidates for the election in the Deutsches Theater. They discuss topics such as traffic, housing, safety and cleanliness, among other things.
Friday: In the afternoon, the Green Party parliamentary group leaders Bettina Jarasch and Werner Graf, who share the top candidate, are campaigning with the Green Party member of the Bundestag Ricarda Lang. The event at Mauerpark in the Mitte district has the motto “Against heat and agitation”.
The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) is planning to conclude its election campaign on Berlin's Alexanderplatz in the late afternoon. Party founder Sahra Wagenknecht, party leader Fabio De Masi and Berlin top candidates Alexander King and Michael Lüders are among those announced for the event at the Weltzeituhr.
Sunday: A new House of Representatives will be elected in Berlin on September 20th. An alliance of the CDU and SPD currently governs the capital. The Greens, Left and AfD are also represented in the House of Representatives.
