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This election year is a special torment. Who can lead Germany into the future? The chancellor candidates are not convincing, says our author. The parties behind it provide the weird soundtrack to a federal election that leaves many voters at a loss.
From Frank Schmiechen
The beginning was easy. Surprisingly easy. I ordered the postal voting documents to be sent to my home using my smartphone. Quickly scan the QR code, press “Submit”, done. That works wonderfully. Now I dread the day my ballot paper was in the mailbox. Because I just don’t know who to choose.
The incumbent government made up of CDU and SPD has embarrassed Germany to the bone in terms of foreign policy these days. And their employees and helpers in Afghanistan were handed over to the murderous Taliban. This mistake alone makes both parties ineligible for me.
Armin Laschet – not a week without embarrassment
At the CDU, not a week goes by without an embarrassment from their Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet. Now he looks a bit like an uncle who regularly drinks over thirst at family celebrations and cracks rude jokes. You wait for the next mistake. In the background, Markus Söder does everything to torpedo the success of his ex-competitor. And then Friedrich Merz also announced that he would be available as “super minister”. That sounds more like a threat. The polls for the Union are disastrous. Totally deserved.
SPD candidate Olaf Scholz likes the role of the man with the big wallet. Countless lockdown billions here, a few flood billions there, or how about a few gender billions for developing countries. No problem. Olaf pays everything. That ensures good poll numbers – and the anxious question of who should pay for it all in the end. But the people at the counter have never been interested as long as there are fresh drinks on the table. Otherwise, Scholz tries to hide his dysfunctional party chairmen Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans from the public. Otherwise the polls could quickly go downhill.
Greens: a golden shimmer over the cargo bike country
The Greens shamelessly revealed their unworldly essence in a commercial. In the video “A beautiful country” the sun is shining, a self-satisfied, golden shimmer covers our cargo bike country. The Greens are singing crookedly about the abolition of short-haul flights and their longing for a pre-industrialized world. Even the toughest critics of the Greens could never have harmed the party as badly as this ad. It confirms all prejudices one could ever have against this party. These sappy Stoffel want to renew Germany? Grace!
The analysis is finished. But the question remains: Who should rule Germany in the future? As wiser as possible than in the past 16 years.
“Monarchy instead of painful voting”
The established parties have little to offer apart from an announced climate rescue and drive me into the arms of the little ones. For example, there is “The Party”. She posters very deep in the west of Berlin. This is of course nonsense and so mediocre. But the text is good. The Queen promises: “In the Westend I will immediately make all voters final and free them from the yoke of hysterical election campaigns. Monarchy instead of electoral torture.” Thanks. Finally.
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