Former Chancellor: Merkel could well imagine Ms. as Federal President

Former Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), of course, considers it conceivable that for the first time a woman will be Federal President. “I think that’s right,” said Merkel at an event of the “Augsburger Allgemeine”. You can “imagine it very well”. “It is funny again that you have to talk about it again,” she added. There are many women with great political experience. Merkel emphasized, however, that she did not want to interfere with the decision upcoming in 2027.

Merkel once again defended her as popular as it is controversial “We can do it”. Merkel chose the three words ten years ago, on August 31, 2015, after it was known that 800,000 refugees were expected in Germany for the current year – and thousands of refugees from Hungary were traveling towards Germany.

Merkel: A lot managed, but still a lot to do

“We have done a lot – but we still have a lot to do,” said Merkel now. Of course there are deficits that you shouldn’t lose sight of. But you can also take a look at how many of the refugees arrived at that time would have made it, for example here. “This is also a huge performance that was done there.” On the one hand, the CDU politician emphasized by the people who came here, and on the other hand from Germany as an increasing country. However, she admitted, for example, that she did not see how difficult it was to bring people who are obliged to leave out of the country again.

Merkel presented her decision at the time as without an alternative. “Would we have put ourselves to the border with water cannons?” She asked. “What would have been with our values?” She warned again to combat the problems, including the causes of flight at European level. “Not weakening our European Union by the fact that we do not find a common solution at this point,” she warned. A rejection of asylum seekers on the border rejected them again clearly.

Merkel: Don’t play people against each other

Merkel decidedly warned of leaving the AfD sovereignty on certain topics. Or accept that the AfD wants to split off the German state. One should not leave the definition to a party, which is just permissible. It is also dangerous to say that Bavaria is “a little more Germany” than Berlin-Kreuzberg. But she also criticized when cargo bikes were played against “hardworking farmers”.