Bundestag election 2021: Laschet calls for resignation – record for “Wahl-O-Mat”

The “Wahl-O-Mat” as a self-test for party programs posted a user record before the federal election. In the period from September 2 to 26, the online offer was used 21.25 million times, announced the Federal Agency for Civic Education. For the 2017 federal election it was played 15.7 million times. Citizens were able to find out more about the parties’ election programs in 38 theses. The Wahl-O-Mat was launched in 2002. There are now some online competitors as well.

The parties elected the new parliamentary group leaders the day after the election. The FDP has chosen Christian Lindner as its new parliamentary group leader with almost 98 percent. First Marco Buschmann remains the parliamentary managing director. They were also confirmed in their offices Parliamentary managing director Bettina Stark-Watzinger and the parliamentary director Florian Toncar. The FDP will be represented in the Bundestag by 92 members.

Also from the point of view of the former Hessian Justice Minister Christian Wagner, Armin Laschet should take responsibility for the unprecedented debacle in the federal election. “We need a fresh start, both in terms of personnel and content,” said the co-founder of the conservative Berlin circle in the Union of the “Heilbronner Voice”. “Laschet should take political responsibility for this crash and this catastrophe.” The steep drop to the historic low of 24.1 percent was self-inflicted, said Wagner. What would have been missing was a clear strategy, clear content orientation and a clear personnel concept. “And we didn’t put the right candidate at the top”said the former parliamentary group leader in the Hessian state parliament. A renewal would also be appropriate in the party presidium, “in which, in some cases, massive attempts have been made against the will of the grassroots to get Armin Laschet through as a candidate in order to prevent Markus Söder and Friedrich Merz.” For Wagner it is clear: “With Söder and Merz we would have achieved a significantly better result.”

The satirists of “Extra 3” make it clear what will be shown everywhere on television from now on: https://twitter.com/extra3/status/1442506378132824069

Should Armin Laschet continue to strive for chancellorship despite the crashing election defeat? Around half of the Union supporters in Germany means no and According to a survey, the CDU chief suggests resignation. This is the result of a survey by the opinion research institute Civey on behalf of the newspapers of the Funke media group. On the late Sunday evening and on Monday, 51 percent answered the question “Should Armin Laschet, in their opinion, step down as party chairman of the CDU due to the results of the Bundestag election” with “definitely” or “rather”. Across all parties, 70 percent of those surveyed think that Laschet should resign. Eleven percent of the citizens are undecided on the question, 19 percent answered “rather no” or “definitely not”.

The managing director of the Allensbach Institute, Renate Köcher, has an explanation for the not so good performance of Alliance 90 / The Greens in the end: The proportion of the population who expected disadvantages from the Greens was, in their opinion, particularly high when comparing the parties. That would have resulted in inquiries about negative and positive expectations of the parties in the weeks leading up to the election. This fear made many potential Green voters jump off. It also harmed the party that shortly before the election There had been speculation about a tripartite alliance with the participation of the Left Partythe pollster explained. “Red-Red-Green” is a coalition which “most of the population expected to harm Germany”.

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania’s CDU leader Michael Sack resignsas he announced in a statement. The 48-year-old draws the conclusions from the poor performance of his party in the state elections held at the same time as the federal election. With Sack as the top candidate, the CDU only got 13.3 percent – after 19.0 percent in the state elections in 2016 – and again ended up behind the AfD (16.7 percent). The strongest force in MV was the SPD from Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig with 39.6 percent.
Sack took over the CDU chairmanship just over a year ago, but was unable to create a spirit of optimism.

The Bundestag election is making headlines today not only in German, but also in international media: https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1442503321261158402

So far, the election result has not had a particularly noticeable impact on the stock exchanges. “After the general election, many investors and entrepreneurs should be relieved that a red-green-red alliance failed to achieve a majority,” said Jörg Krämer, Commerzbank’s chief economist, commenting on the situation. But a market economy reform program is also unlikely. “The euro exchange rate and Italian government bonds should only react to the outcome of the federal election when it becomes clear how a new federal government will position itself on the issue of joint borrowing within the EU,” said Krämer.

Clear announcement: The Rhineland-Palatinate CDU member of the state parliament Ellen Demuth demands insight from Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet:
https://twitter.com/EllenDemuth/status/1442485175586365447

Bizarre news from Lübeck: A 55-year-old wanted to vote twice there yesterday as the police are now reporting. Several hours after he cast his vote, the man appeared again at his polling station to vote for the second time. When an election worker explained to him that this was forbidden, the overzealous voter began to “riot loudly”. After he noticed that the police had been alerted, he left the polling station “on the run”.

What are the lessons from the federal election? Horst von Buttlar, member of the stern– Editor in Chief explains it:

Whoever takes a seat on the government bench in the end, there is one thing that will hardly be any different in the new Bundestag than in the old one: the proportion of women, as SPD MP Leni Breymaier states: https://twitter.com/LeniBreymaier/status/1442489149072756741

the FDP is the first party to come to a constituent meeting today together. The other groups want to meet tomorrow.
There will be a comparatively short meeting with a few items for the day, says Konstantin Kuhle, who sits on the federal board of the Liberals, to “Phoenix”. One will Christian Lindner is very likely to confirm again as group leaderAt least no other candidates are known to Kuhle. In addition, in view of the preliminary sounding with the Greens, some formalities still need to be clarified.

By the way, the election campaign is clear from the citizens felt more exciting than in the past, says Prof. Renate Köcher, managing director of the Institute for Demoscopy in Allensbach.
About unpopular candidates, a lack of controversy and neglected content – Nevertheless, the people were “quite disgruntled” when it came to the election campaign.