Angela Merkel rejected her center-left deputy prime minister’s attempt to portray herself as her continuum candidate, and thus got involved in the German election campaign because her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) tried to pass Warn “chaos” to revive its malaise. Left-wing coalition government.
The intervention comes as Merkel’s fourth and final cabinet’s deputy prime minister, Olaf Scholz’s prime ministerial candidate, the Social Democratic Party (SPD), is increasingly effectively persuading voters that he is more and more effective. It is possible to continue to serve as the centrist and rational legacy of the prime minister, rather than as a candidate for her own party.
Schultz repeatedly emphasized his and Merkel’s agreement in key policy areas during Sunday’s television debate, and opinion polls declared him the clear winner.
But on Tuesday Merkel dismissed the comparison, saying there was “a huge difference in Germany’s future” between Schultz and her.
“With me as prime minister, there will never be a left-wing party alliance [Die Linke] Get involved,” Merkel said at a joint press conference in Berlin with visiting Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz. “Whether Olaf Schultz agrees with this position is an open question. “
Opinion polls that have not been released in the past few days indicate that the coalition between the three broad left-wing parties, the Social Democratic Party, the Green Party, and the Link Party, may win the majority of the ruling seats in the national vote on September 26.
But the surge in support for the Social Democratic Party in the past two weeks means that the left-leaning “R2G” alliance is not completely unimaginable. A poll released on Tuesday showed that the support rate for this power-sharing agreement was 47%.
The CDU and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU) are increasingly concerned about this situation.A sort of videoThis week, shared on the social media channels of the CDU and CDU, warned voters that they must “decide the way forward” for the future of Germany, and they face the choice between “a strong center or left-wing chaos.”
A new CSU website, Linksrutsch-verhindern.de (“Stop drifting to the left”), illustrated by the banners of Schultz and Green Party politicians in the style of Marx, Lenin, and Stalin.
Their messages reminded German commentators of the campaign slogan that the CDU first tried in 1994, and they would return to this slogan whenever the alliance with Die Linke appeared at the national or state level: “Let’s take a big step into the future …But don’t wear red socks.”
CDU candidate Armin Laschet said this week that his campaign is not just a nostalgic revival of the “Red Sox” movement: “The left-wing party is a party that does not belong to the German government,” he said. .
Few people believe in Scholz or Green candidates, Annalena Balbok, Will really help to form an alliance with Die Linke, the successor party of the Socialist Unity Party that once ruled East Germany, to govern the country.
Die Linke’s pledge to abolish NATO and end all German military deployments abroad is inconsistent with the priorities of the two major parties and will provide a permanent line of attack for the opposition.
Kevin, the vice chairman of the Social Democratic Party, said: “Anyone who really wants to deceive people into believing Olaf Scholz-let me repeat: Olaf Schultz-will establish a communist dictatorship in Germany and hold it. The red flag cheering people in the Bundestag were screwed up.” Kühnert, said Sunday night.
But in the televised debate before his comment, Scholz and Baerback also ignored the emphasis on excluding the option to form an alliance with Die Linke, which they may think is a useful tactical lever for alliance negotiations.
Schultz only stated that any government under his leadership will abide by the principle of “indispensability,” which includes clear commitments to NATO and the European Union, and a responsible attitude towards economic growth and domestic security.
