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Comment: The pressure on Merkel is increasing
What is Munich, Wurzburg, Reutlingen and Ansbach for the refugee Chancellor Angela Merkel mean? The further progress will probably depend on whether to seek another term or not, says Kay-Alexander Scholz.
One of the pictures, that was almost a year ago to the world: refugees Selfies with the Chancellor
About the radiant image of the ever-popular Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany have put especially in the last year in the Wake of the refugee crisis, many shadow. “Merkel must Call-off”-as they are read since then, the country of the followers of the “Alternative for Germany”, and other Merkel-critics, and to hear, were in the years before, probably unimaginable. Merkel herself had staged as a “refugee Chancellor”. That landed her in the part of the German high recognition – many others shook, but only with the head.
Just in the past few weeks had calmed down, these polarized mood a bit. What is striking is the internal political relaxation correlated with the – after the Closing of the Western Balkan Route – a sharp drop in refugee numbers. In the media the topic of refugees moved further to the rear. The values for Merkel’s party, the CDU, had a rest.
Re-turning point for Merkel’s View
For Merkel very located also the new internal party came into power fight for you and your party so dangerous AfD. Their leadership has shown that it wants to argue politically rather to death, as in the Team to go forward. In the survey, values to be reflected immediately in points loss.
Capital Correspondent Kay-Alexander Scholz
The attacks of the past days in Germany, signify a new turning point. Because in the public opinion, Merkel and refugees form a term pair. Now, as refugees in the broadest sense to provide for negative headlines, and will also increase the pressure on Merkel.
No matter whether Würzburg, Munich, Reutlingen, or Ansbach were committed by actual refugees or Islamist backgrounds – the investigation is still ongoing. Many will not want to make this necessary differentiation, or can. Foreigners, migrants, refugees, German-Iranians – are all thrown in a pot. If, as in these days of violence, more and more, is not a short-circuit in the head.
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Steep template for the AfD
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Merkel is currently on holiday in Uckermark, where you grew up. Of course, it is always in service. Right off, you will be able to in fact hardly any. Because in addition to the violence in Germany, the coup and its consequences in Turkey bring your troublesome with the EU, and Erdogan won the refugee deal to falter.
Want to Merkel to compete again?
In about a year’s Bundestag elections. Whether Merkel commencing once again as a candidate, she has left open so far. Your decision will probably depend largely on how the complex topic of refugees further developed. A big terrorist attack like in Paris or Brussels is expected to make another term for Merkel is unlikely.
As for the AfD as it could be already in this September exciting. Ironically, in Merkel’s home state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is at least conceivable that the AfD is the strongest party in the state elections. Even the distance to the leading CDU is quite large. But it should give you some more killing sprees, or terrorist acts, could melt the distance. By the way: The power struggle in the AfD should be resolved according to the will of the power-conscious party Chairman Frauke Petry in the coming weeks.
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