Angela Merkel took advantage of what might be her last speech in the German parliament to intervene in the most impassioned election so far, urging the public to vote for the troubled candidate in her party, not him. The soaring center-left competitor.
The prime minister, who will step down after the federal elections on September 26, warned that the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Green Party may form an alliance with the far-left Die Linke.
Merkel said: “The real economic and tax-related decisions will determine the future of our country and the number of jobs.” She added that Armin Raschelt of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) where she works is the only one who can form “a general The moderate government that leads our country to the future”.
Lashet’s stars have A sharp decline in recent weeks, A poll released on Tuesday predicted that the CDU will drop below 20% for the first time in German post-war history. In this campaign led by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, the Social Democratic Party Olaf Scholz leads the polls About 25%.
Merkel also used her speech to criticize Scholz for using the term “guinea pig” to describe people who were vaccinated against Covid-19. At a campaign rally on Saturday, the Social Democratic Party candidate urged unvaccinated people to get vaccinated, saying that “guinea pigs” like him have proven that the vaccine is safe.
Merkel called the metaphor “unbalanced”: “None of us are guinea pigs, neither Olaf Schultz nor I,” she added in the Bundestag on Tuesday.
Schultz responded that people must win people’s support in a “casual, relaxed, and laughable joke” way.
“If some people don’t want to make a fuss about being laughed at, it may be more related to the fact that the latest polls haven’t brought them too many ridiculous facts,” Scholz added.
Germany has vaccinated 61.4% of the population against the new coronavirus, lagging behind other major European countries such as Spain, France and the United Kingdom.
Schultz later thanked the prime minister for his work during the pandemic and used this opportunity to promote his campaign, promising to give priority to solving the problem of child poverty, and promote affordable lives and stable pensions.
Merkel’s ruling style usually allows her to get rid of partisan political quarrels, and her partisan intervention has attracted ridicule from other lawmakers.
“Oh my God, what a fuss!” she retorted. “I have been a member of the German Bundestag for more than 30 years. If not here, where should we discuss these issues? This is the core of our democracy.”
