A sort ofSuddenly, everyone joined: the Federal Chancellor, her possible successor, and the Chancellor of Hessen. Angela Merkel A few days ago, when she vigorously intervened in the union’s campaign activities, she caused a real surprise for the first time. At the beginning of two weeks ago, she was tired of complimenting Amin Rashet. The man who wanted to sit at her desk in the future was a politician. The CDU’s nominal “C” was A compass. On Tuesday, she really leaped at him. She hit Laschet’s competitor Olaf Scholz, who, as the SPD candidate for prime minister, not only successfully pulled herself to the top of the movement on the way to the ballot box, but also successfully pulled the sick SPD to the top of the movement. Merkel pleaded with Schultz’s help, the danger that a government involving the left-wing party might come to power.
Raschelt This problem was also solved a few days ago. In the first television trial between Annalena Baerbock, the green prime minister candidate, and her two male rivals, he told Schultz face to face that he should eventually rule out an agreement with the Left Party possibility. The Prime Minister of Hessen, Volker Buffier, was interviewed by FAZ. The SPD candidate for prime minister must have the “guts” to say: “My friends, with me, the left-wing party will not participate.”
“Found his topic”
However, Bouffier added that it’s hard to say whether this is political campaign allied. The number of German comrades red to come to power with comrades dark to give a left-leaning warning is as old as the party itself and its predecessors. In July 1994, three months before the federal election, the then General Secretary of the CDU, Peter Hintz, launched his “Red Sock” campaign and cheered for “find the topic” for the campaign.
Fifteen years later, in a conversation with Kölnische Rundschau, he described the incident as a “great success”.this Social Democratic Party I was far ahead in the polls at the time. “So we are facing the issue of having to conduct campaigns.” Regardless of the percentage of warnings against PDS, the league ultimately leads SPD by five percentage points. The successor to SED, known as PDS at the time, did not appear in the Bundestag, and Helmut Kohl was elected prime minister for the final legislative term.
Every Tuesday
But in the same interview where Hintze was happy about the 2009 coup, he cited several reasons why something similar happened to them CDU No longer possible. The ultra-left can be associated with the dictatorship of East Germany for too long. In addition, the original PDS obtained the “paint of the old Social Democratic Party” by merging with the party “Die Linke”. Such warnings should not prevent the CDU from trying this trick again. As early as the end of 2016, when Angela Merkel was approaching her last term, she warned the Red, Green and Red Alliance again. The then General Secretary Peter Tauber even talked about the “main opponent” in the campaign. In the 2017 general election, the CDU eventually led the Social Democratic Party by more than 12 percentage points, and Merkel was elected prime minister for the fourth time-after complicated alliance negotiations.
Election campaign must be reversed
Let me say it again: The Social Democrats are leading, and the election campaign must be reversed. The CDU is drawing on the wall the specter of shifting to the left under the leadership of Prime Minister Scholz. Can you help? On the one hand, the starting position is not bad. For tactical reasons, Scholz could not say a strong no to the alliance with the United States. Leftist pronounce. Even if the Social Democratic Party leads the coalition on September 26, it may have to rely on a partner other than the Green Party. If Scholz categorically excludes the left, then the FDP will be triggered and Scholz may be asked to provide a lot of help to help him enter the Chancellery.
On the other hand, there are. Schultz He won a long and tragic reputation on the left wing of the Social Democratic Party, because he and then Prime Minister Gerhard Schroeder were responsible for the reform of Harz IV. Communism stickers will not be affixed to his Hanseatic vest. For him, the government coexisting with the left-wing party will not have an ideological problem, but a practical problem, because he has been in government responsibilities for long enough, and he knows how many positions in the left-wing party are not for the day-to-day government. Suitable. The fourth largest economic country in foreign countries and foreign security policies.
In addition, a survey conducted by the Wahlen research team on behalf of the ZDF at the end of August found that although 47% of the respondents believed that the federal government led by the Social Democratic Party and its partners, the Green Party and the Left Party, was bad, 37 Percent thinks it is good. Otherwise, only one traffic light from SPD, Greens and FDP has won such a high support rate. All the constellations with the Prime Minister of the CDU have finally fallen behind very clearly. The fear of the left-wing party, which at least provided the Prime Minister of Thuringia, does not seem to be that big anymore.
After all, it is questionable whether Armin Laschet, who advertises himself in the image of reconciliation, can conduct credible campaigns on the issue of division. But in the end, these are not important. If the battle cry of “Against the Left!” can be used to inspire insecure campaign activists in the CDU and CSU, then from the perspective of the alliance, much has been achieved. After all, Merkel may have played an important role in defending the Chancellery.
