Berlin – German elections are usually proud of being strongly boring. This time it is not so.
The world’s third largest economy on Sunday goes to election from the Trump administration under the shadow of Brahma interventions from the Trump administration in support of the anti-trump distance on Sunday. Meanwhile, a group of high-profile attacks on the streets of Germany coming on Friday in Berlin’s Holocost Memorial has been accused of argument.
The favorite of becoming a Chancellor is Frederick Merz, 69, straight-half, center-rights Christian Democrat Union or CDU. He has questioned Germany’s future relations with the United States.
“I hope this (America) remains a democracy and does not slide into an authoritarian populist system,” Merz revealed at a campaign program in DarMstad on Thursday. “But it may be that the US will enter in a longer period of instability and that it will continue for a long time, this autocratic behavior of the state heads.”
At home, the merz regulators want to slash red tape and corporation tax, while critics say that to tighten the boundaries of Germany, their rivals are an attempt to move rigid. He is against the 66-year-old Olaf Sholaz, whose center is struggling to deal with the fall of epidemic in the Social Democratic Association, or SPD, Ukraine and the twin economic crises of war.
But undoubtedly a big story is an option for Germany, the 21% voting figures will double their support from the last election in 2021, and possibly placed it in second place. Under the leadership of 36-year-old Alice Vedel, far-flung anti-radical immigration and the anti-Muslim party are under the survey for suspected extremism by the country’s own domestic intelligence agency.
Germany’s proportional, polynomial system is designed to make it very difficult to win a lump sum for one side, which means they should work together and rule by coalition. CDU leads elections at 28%, SPD at 16%. 55 -year -old Robert Habec, currently with 13%of Greens is headed.
Other parties, such as Socialist Die Linke and Pro-Business Free Democrats, will expect to achieve the 5% threshold required to enter Bundestag.
The polling stations known as “Wahllokale” will open at 8 am and will be open at 6 pm on Sunday (2 pm – afternoon at). Shortly after, a exit pole will fall which historically has given an accurate idea of the end results. In the coming hours, on Monday morning, the results will roam in themselves.
Most eyes will be on AFD. Its rise Europe-Wide Trend is part of dangerous liberals and centralists, making nationalist parties profitable in the entire continent at the cost of political establishments.
“We think it is unimaginable that fascism can return to Europe, but it is – it is here,” said a prominent activist, writer and psychologist Marina Wezband. A project to strengthen democracy education in German schools, Visband, founding director of Aula, said, “The established parties have no response.” “What are the parties in Germany most, just keep the system running. But the system does not work on its own. ,
With many of these nationalist European movements, the White House has established relations with AFD, which has been supported by Trump’s advisor Elon Musk and Vice President JD Vance.
Andreas Busch, a professor at political science at the University of Gotingen, believes that striking as these interventions, he has not promoted AFD’s domestic poll.
“This did not take the needle to a bit,” he said. He said, “They are gradually but of course in the opinion poll.” “And Musk has been running for a long time before saying anything.”
AFD rejects the label as a distant and fascist. “This is the bulls —“, “Mark Bernhard, one of its MPs told NBC News at a rally in Carlsu this week. The White House and AFD leader Videl did not respond to their relationship or policies and the requests of the party’s rhetoric.
The rise of AFD is especially striking in Germany, a country that is careful with its own Nazi past that it has laws and informal political pacts to prevent the return of fascism. One of these is “Firewall” is an agreement to not work with far-flung parties such as AFDs. Therefore, it is unlikely that the party will enter any alliance after the vote, even if it votes strongly.
“No one expects that the AFD will form the government in this election,” Bush said. “So it is difficult to assess how seriously they should be taken.”
Reintends these efforts The AFD has become a soopbox issue for AFD MPs, whose romance cries that their freedom of speaking is being banned, echoed by musk and others.
Potential coalition options include a CDU-Green alliance. Or even a so-called “Grand Alliance”-or between GroCo-CDU and SPD, two historically the largest parties are right and the center’s left. Some show a danger as it will consecrate AFD as an official opposition.
These coalition talks may take months, and obtaining wrong bedfellows can be expensive. By infecting the “traffic light aligning” of the scools with greens and free democrats, finally stuck on the argument of a budget deficit in November, established the platform for Sunday’s Snap Poll.
The idea of the two rivals involved in the force may seem strange to the polarized American ears, but Groko was repeatedly employed in power during his 16 years by Imperius Merkel, and a liberal consensus with liberal consensus to run German politics Types the building.
AFD will argue that this is actually the mainstream of such, the establishment group which Germany and the West have found in many crises today.
The country is undoubtedly in the low eb. Once Europe’s industrial powerhouse, its economy sits on the verge of recession. It no longer enjoys the cheap natural gas pumped by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Europe, with Western powers to prevent drawing from welpringing of Paria. And its pre -export market of China has become an economic competitor, which challenges German’s inheritance auto industry with cheap, great quality electric vehicles.
Then the United States is questioned, which has been locating German’s military security for Germany’s military security for decades, which has been a warning for the first Soviet Union and now for Russia. This guarantee sees in its current form, President Donald Trump openly questioned the post -wise security agreement with NATO countries.
Although a backseat military power since World War II, Germany has abolished its military budget after years of failing to fulfill NATO’s minimum guidelines. Nevertheless, many experts say that, as the world’s third largest economy, it is still very low, and extending the defense budget will lead to even more stress on its sick economy.
As Germany prepares to celebrate a 70 -year celebration at the Military Alliance in May, Marse interrogated Washington’s future as his Keston Member.
“Will American still be there?” He explained the DarMstad event. “I would not have dared to ask this question eight weeks ago, but today we have to answer it.”
