Germany: Chancellery candidates face off on television

In Germany, with federal elections approaching on September 26, a question remains: who will succeed Angela Merkel? His heir, Armin Laschet, struggling at the polls, withdrew from the coups on Sunday, September 12, during a debate against his main opponent, the Social Democratic candidate Olaf Scholz.

On Sunday, September 12, Angela Merkel’s heir Armin Laschet tried to win a televised debate that pitted him against the other two chancellery candidates, Olaf Scholz and Annalena Baerbock. “From the first surveys, it was Olaf Scholz who was the most convincing. He was already the favorite and he perfectly applied his strategy, which is to stay a little behind and calmly respond to the attacks of opponents, who came to him about the risk of an alliance with the far left and about his lack of ambition in terms of ecology”, reports the correspondent of France Televisions, Laurent Desbonnets, live from Berlin (Germany).

During this debate, Olaf Scholz did not fight back or make a shocking proposal, which tends to make him seem like “the personification of boredom in politics”, as the newspaper Der Spiegel wrote. “In the end, this suits the Germans very well, who aspire above all to stability, in search of compromises. Olaf Scholz, not the same party as Angela Merkel, but in method and style, it looks a lot like what the chancellor did during her sixteen years in power “, concludes Laurent Desbonnets.

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