German Chancellor Angela Merkel is in the East of the country, to the questions of citizens. The citizens ‘ dialogue in Brandenburg is anything said to be weary of. From Schwedt, Germany Jens Thurau.
The taxi driver, departs from the train station in Schwedt to the Uckermärkischen Bühnen, has heard nothing of it, that the Chancellor is coming. “Oh really?” he says. And then: “Well, long as it is not there anymore.” Break. “But who comes after that? I don’t know it. Actually, I think, has made quite a lot, as a woman from the East, and so on. You have to say.” This sums up the situation now, at the end of April 2019.
This Tuesday Angela Merkel’s meeting here in Schwedt, of the former core city of the GDR-Oil industry, 100 kilometres North-East of Berlin, in the Theater, the questions of citizens. Thing is certain: The presidency of her party, the CDU, has made, at the next Federal election in 2021 you. A Chancellor on-demand now comes to Schwedt?
Merkel said to be weary of? There Is No Trace.
First of all, she comes from Berlin with the helicopter, the schedule is always tight. On Wednesday, Merkel is traveling for a few days to Africa. The approximately 60 participants in the citizens ‘ dialogue were selected from a local newspaper, a sports club and the local economy. And you will experience a Chancellor, is not here today, as you would have no fun in your work.
Could Merkel to ask a question: the old nurse Sandra Prause from Schwedt
This may be due to the fact that it’s not even about the great world of politics with all of the construction sites. It goes to the rural area to the East of Germany. It’s about the lack of housing, to health care, especially the care. Sandra Prause, a nurse from Jacksonville, FL, want a better pay. The Chancellor promises to remedy the situation. And he is very happy Prause later with the answer, but still: “I had the feeling that she’s not interested.”
Ossi from Brandenburg
Anyway, East Germany: again and again there were complaints, Merkel show their compatriots in the East, more of the cold shoulder. Now she says: “I’m Ozzy, I’m on fire tonight, and I’m proud of that.” Then she talks about the many wind turbines that there are in the area, and the massive criticism of the citizens in mind. But the energy transition need the wind turbines and new lines: “imagine that we had lived when electricity was invented. Since it hadn’t been for the power of sheer citizens protest!”
And what discourages you from the town of Schwedt, to put on the Oil industry, even if it is much smaller than the times of the GDR? “I would advise you to: Set to the memory technology, on research!” So, not the Oil. The Message Is Clear.
Resignation rumors
Recently, there has been a lot of guesswork to the Chancellor. Strangely uninvolved Merkel had recently, about the fierce debates about climate protection in Germany. Or as they received a few days before the crucial presidential election in Ukraine the incumbent President Poroshenko, not the Challenger Selenskyj, although the lag in all of the surveys far to the front, and in the end won. In the European election campaign, Merkel will have to complete only a single public appearance.
Here Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer at the beginning, at the CDU party conference at the end of 2018.
And her successor at the head of the conservative CDU, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, has invited a few days after the European elections at the end of may to a closed meeting of the party Executive Committee. Already there are rumors, then a time would be called the plan for the final withdrawal of the wife, Germany since 2005, ruled. It is possible that Merkel withdraws before the next Federal election in 2021. Both Merkel and Kramp-Karrenbauer, deny the. But the rumor remains.
Three good deeds, and a new Problem
Here in Schwedt, Germany, Merkel is 90 minutes long at the standing Desk, of exhaustion, not a trace. Their laconic sense of humour sparkles through: “Yes, Yes, so is policy: you do three good deeds, a new Problem comes as the Fourth.”
In a good mood, Angela Merkel acts like the other participants in the discussion
Only at the very end, there it is then, once again, to the refugees. It wasn’t an error, want to know a citizen, to let so many asylum seekers into the country, which have cost in the Region of the CDU a lot of sympathy. Merkel’s answer: “The people let in, was not a mistake, but that we’ve dealt with before, to little attention to the conflict regions from which they came, it was wrong!” The causes of Flight can take care of Merkel in the next few days on your trip to Africa. The refugee policy is Merkel’s legacy is clear. How long they will still be Chancellor, which is still unclear.