BERLIN: Germany's Social Democrats have broken a taboo in modern German politics by taking aim at the religious beliefs of a close aide to Armin Laschet, the conservative candidate to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel after a Sep 26 election.
"Whoever votes for Armin Laschet and the CDU, votes for ... ultra-Catholic Laschet confidants for whom sex before marriage is a taboo," the narrator says as the video shows a Russian doll bearing Liminski's face, inside a bigger doll bearing Laschet's face. In the video, the SPD took aim at other leading conservatives, arguing that supporting them would make the rich richer and the poor poorer, and push the party to the right.The video, streamed live on Wednesday, ran at the end of a half-hour presentation by SPD General Secretary Lars Klingbeil. An SPD spokesperson, contacted by Reuters, said it was a 'social media clip' and was not an election campaign commercial.
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