Germany feared an endless twilight, like that of its two role models in politics, Konrad Adenauer and Helmut Kohl.
Did Angela Merkel do the extra mandate like them?
Weakened for a time, she was reinvigorated at the end of her reign by her management of the Covid crisis.
His popularity is at its zenith after sixteen years in power, a political anomaly in the 21st century!
And the main stake in Sunday's legislative elections is to know which of the two candidates best embodies his heritage: his runner-up, the conservative Armin Laschet - as little charismatic as the chancellor - or the social democrat Olaf Scholz, who pushes the tribute to the point of 'to mimic his gestures.
Does the appropriation of Merkel's succession deserve such a fierce fight?
A pragmatic manager, she has not led to major transformations.
It skillfully capitalized on the liberal reforms of Gerhard Schröder, who put the German economy back on a virtuous course.
Merkel erected the art of consensus - sometimes
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