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 Sept. 26 election.
In a video published online, the left-leaning Social Democratic Party singled out a number of leading conservatives including Nathanael Liminski, who heads Laschet's office in his regional government in North Rhine-Westphalia.
"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. "The political debate is becoming ever more divided by cultural issues," said Carsten Nickel at Teneo, a political risk consultancy. "The SPD is trying to wake up this campaign by mobilising supporters around cultural questions."
Leaping on the video, the Tagesspiegel newspaper ran a headline on Saturday reading: "Laschet targeted by 'negative campaigning': The SPD breaks a taboo in the election campaign".
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