Follow Friedrich Merz’s choice of Chancellor now live

The winner of the day is expressly not Friedrich Merz, although he is now wearing the most powerful political office in the Federal Republic. The winners are called AfD and Left. For the AfD it is a day of a communicative triumph because the processes were concenually inserted into their populist-extreme narrative narrative of a supposedly dysfunctional system. Only four days after being used by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution “Secured right -wing extremist” was classified, she has Your public revenge receive. While the Union and SPD had to sort hectically, the AfD bosses Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla were able to complain about the decline of the Federal Republic in front of the television cameras and request the new election of the Bundestag.

The Left, in turn. In order to take the second ballot on this day, the parliamentary group was needed for a two-thirds majority to shorten the deadline. The Alternative would have been voices from the AfD – Better foregoing Merz, Spahn and Dobrindt. So it was negotiated with the left – So the party with which Union has excluded any cooperation by incompatibility decision. This is a turning point and follows what has been everyday in East German state parliament like Saxony and Thuringia for years.