Published September 27, 2021 at 11:32 AM
Abroad. The big loser in the German Bundestag election is Angela Merkel's party, the Christian Democratic CDU. With an election result of around 24 percent, the CDU and its new Chancellor & shy; candidate Armin Laschet made the historically worst election result since 1949.
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The election result puzzled German commentators on Monday.
Junge Freiheit's editor-in-chief Dieter Stein writes in an analysis that the disastrous result is largely not due to Laschet, but rather to the dissatisfaction with Angela Merkel, who refused to leave her post in due course. time before the election, and instead has clung to the last.
The whole election campaign also became strange. Since West Germany's first election in 1949, a sitting Chancellor has never remained in office during the election campaign, without also running in the election. But so did Merkel.
After 16 years as Chancellor, Angela Merkel has established the CDU as a really tired governing party, which many voters obviously thought it was time to pass to the opposition gallery, Stein states.
The New York Times stated that the SPD's Chancellor & shy; candidate Olaf Scholz also looked tired, even before he took office. Germany will now “continue as before”, according to the New York Times.
Australian The Age states that “Europe's queen and the most powerful woman in the world”, that is Angela Merkel, will hardly disappear from the Chancellor's post through the election, but will now remain in power until a new coalition is formed.
“Her great popularity was not reflected in the support of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its candidate for Chancellor Armin Laschet. (…) But in the end, none of the major parties will be happy with their result,” writes The Age .
The German state television giant ZDF states that the wave master parties will have a decisive influence.
“At the end of this election night, we only know for sure that the Merkel era is coming to an end. Voters sent Germany to a standstill today and elected a weak chancellor, whether his name is Scholz – which is more likely tonight – or Laschet. There are now two options on the scales. In plain text: The Greens and Liberals can now decide who becomes chance ler “.