List leader Armin Laschet of Germany’s centre-right CDU/CSU apologized during a closed-door group meeting for the poor result in last Sunday’s election. Insiders told the German news agency DPA that he had admitted mistakes in the election campaign.
from unionAs the CDU and CSU are called collectively, they received 24.1% of the vote, the worst national result in the party’s history. Four years ago, the party led by Chancellor Merkel received 32.9 percent of the vote.
Laschet sees another opportunity to rule after all. With an alliance with the Greens and the Liberal Free Democratic Party, the DPA writes. Today, the news agency wrote, he did not want to abandon the so-called Jamaican alliance “so quickly”.
Schulz has the best chances.
Markus Söder of the Bavarian sister party CSU congratulated SPD leader Olaf Schulz earlier today on his victory. “Schultz currently has the best opportunity to become a consultant,” Sodder said. The Social Democratic Party (center-left) won the elections with 25.7 percent of the vote. Schulz has previously said he favors an alliance with the FDP and the Greens.
Both Schulze and Lachette said they hope to get out before Christmas. But political analysts do not rule out that Merkel will deliver the traditional New Year’s address at the beginning of 2022.
