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If it unites the games of the German electoral campaign, they flee the former chancellor, whose inherited electorate has been bitter.
By Jim Tankersley
Berlin reports
A complaint choir welcomed Friedrich Merz, the favorite of the German chancellor last month, when he broke a taboo to oppose the paintings with a difficult part to adopt legislation. But it was a single voice of the dissent that shook the political scene of the country: Angela Merkel, the former prior chancellor, who described Mr. Merz’s resolution to “bad. “
Mrs. Merkel and Mr. Merz made Jockey to lead the German Christian Democrats for a giant component of this century. Merkel won the first laps, served 16 years as a chancellor and retired in 2021. Mr. Merz, despite everything, has the possibility of winning his previous task in this month’s elections.
But Mrs. Merkel complicates her efforts, either with her open complaint and, more importantly, with a political heritage on which the German electorate has bitter.
The German elections are encouraged through considerations with respect to a stagnant economy, a wave of immigration of a decade, greater energy costs and a faint national security, Russia that puts the war in the east and president Trump threatening to disappoint with disappointing NATO in the West. The disorders led to a review of Mrs. Merkel and Germany controlled.
It was Mrs. Merkel who maintained the German borders open since 2015, allowing what has become millions of refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and other places to establish themselves. This resolution has stimulated a reaction among German voters. Many political leaders have blamed him for the emergence of the election of the hard party to the right for Germany, or AFD, who has campaigned tirelessly to expel insurance immigrants and is time for Christian democrats in national found.
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