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Germany Election Week: Candidates to succeed Merkel are having a hard time taking off
Polls show that about 40 percent of voters have yet to decide who to vote for, although Social Democrat candidate Olaf Schultz - Merkel's finance minister and deputy - continues to lead.
His opponent, a replacement for Merkel Armin Lasht, is trying to warn of the far-left entering the government and the Greens are trailing behind.
Tonight the decisive confrontation
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Sunday, 19 September 2021, 20:14
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In the video: Merkel's party suffers losses in local elections in Germany (Photo: Reuters, edited by Assaf Drori)
The leaders of Germany's major parties will meet tonight (Sunday) for a final confrontation ahead of next week's elections, with the race to replace outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel remaining particularly close.
According to opinion polls, the Social Democratic Party, led by Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Olaf Schultz, has been leading the Conservative bloc for the first time in many years. Schultz has made solid appearances in the previous two confrontations, winning according to opinion polls conducted at their conclusion.
Armin Lasht, Merkel's designated successor, has struggled to take advantage of previous clashes to rise in the polls. By July it had been established at the top, but a chain of mistakes and embarrassments - like a picture in which he was seen smiling as he toured one of the hotspots of the flood disaster - led to a drop in public support for him.
German Parliament Speaker Wolfeng Shovla, a veteran of the ruling Christian Democratic Party, has acknowledged that she has lost momentum and that her image has been dizzying in the media. Just digging deeper. "
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Chancellor came out of three.
Schultz (left) in front of Lasht and Barbuk in the previous confrontation (Photo: Reuters)
According to opinion polls, the Social Democrats - the members of the current coalition led by the Conservatives - have a 2% to 6% advantage, so everything is still open in the week leading up to the parliamentary elections - about 40% of voters have yet to decide who to vote for. Tonight, the 60-year-old Lasht will have one last chance against the 63-year-old Schultz, who refrained from falling into the traps that his rivals have set for him in previous clashes.
The third rib in the race is the Greens candidate, Annalena Barbuk, who after a strong spring start is now receiving less than 20% support. The sharp decline in support for her is attributed to her little political experience. However, it has proven to be popular with young voters and its party may play a crucial role in post-election coalition talks.
Lasht tried two main lines of attack against Schultz, who to the frustration of the conservatives presents himself as the natural successor to Merkel with his moderate and clear governmental approach. He argues that Schultz would be willing to form a government with the far-left De Linke party in order to form a majority with the Greens into a three-party coalition.
While Schultz and Brbok said that the opposition of Die Linke continued membership in NATO would be a red line for future talks between them, they do not explicitly rejected the feasibility to cooperate with the party, which receives about 6% in the polls.
Machete, Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia State populous county in Germany, tried to attack the Schulz reminding investigation being conducted against the agency to combat money laundering is under the supervision of his office. he called the investigation another example Shultz is not doing his duty after a series of financial scandals in recent years.
Schultz, be asked tomorrow on the subject parliamentary inquiry Committee rejected Strongly accuse.
The left is dreaming of a revolution after 16 years.
Candidates' posters in Berlin (Photo: AP)
Merkel, who is still very popular, has largely stayed out of the race until recently, when she began stepping up her appearances alongside Lasht in hopes of launching his faltering campaign.
Schultz, for his part, assures voters stability and continuity after 16 years of Merkel-led governments, three of which were in cooperation with the Social Democrats.
However, he said he would pay more attention to the growing gap between rich and poor in Europe's largest economy, including by raising the minimum wage and addressing the housing crisis with new construction projects.
He introduced into the election discourse the need to give "respect" to those left behind during the last years of economic growth.
Meanwhile, the 40-year-old Barbuk has accused the two major parties of abandoning German citizens in the face of the climate crisis, the flagship issue of the Green Party.
She warned that the next government "would be the last to still be able to actively influence the climate crisis," and she pledged that any coalition in which her party would be a member would have to significantly increase investment in reducing polluting gas emissions.
Another party that does not need to translate the uncertainty in its favor is an alternative to Germany from the far right.
It stormed into German politics in 2017, following the immigration crisis, and became the third largest in parliament.
However, internal conflicts and the decline of the issue of immigration, at least for the time being, above the agenda, threaten to make it irrelevant.
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