The new epidemic of the Corona virus caused thousands of people to lose their lives or jobs, but at the same time it saved political leaders who were about to lose their sites after their popularity declined, according to a report by the Washington Post.
The report said that among these leaders, South Korean President Moon Jae-in, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, as the former was facing escalating calls for his dismissal, due to slow economic growth, and a series of political scandals erupted, while the second was forced to say that she would not run again after the end of Its current session in 2021, to absorb the popular pressure demanded its displacement, after 15 years in power, and the two, Moon Jae-in and Merkel, were able to provide, through the way they manage the crisis, a model example for other countries, represented in conducting the largest possible number of tests To detect the virus and investigate another It infected contacts of.
Reports confirm that Germany's deaths do not represent more than one to four of Italy's deaths, even though the former is more populous than the second, while South Korea did not exceed 259 cases (at the time of writing the report), which is negligible compared to US numbers. Opinion polls indicate that Merkel's popularity rose from 53 degrees to 68 degrees, due to her policies regarding Corona. As for the Mon government in Seoul, she won a valuable victory in the last parliamentary elections, even with a small margin of victory. »It is far from its causes. There is a third model other than these two countries, for political leaders whose corona crisis, like New Zealand Prime Minister Gacinda Adren, has been lifted by the Corona crisis, after it imposed a strict and effective ban within a plan that aimed to eradicate the virus completely, in a period of time that did not end last March. The "Rescue List", which is credited to "Corona", expands to include countries such as Britain, which, despite not being able to contain the spread of the virus early, but the popularity of its Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has increased after his detention, because of his infection with the virus, which is popular It would not have increased under normal conditions, given its slow performance against the spread of the virus. Professor Tim Bell, a political science professor at Queen Mary University, says: “Nobody wants to speak out the obvious truth, which is that Johnson was fortunate in his detention, and this has brought him a great deal of sympathy, despite his failures to provide the virus-protective supplies or the practice of tracking Or investigate the roots of the hot spots effectively. ”
In Europe, in addition to Britain, there is another model for a country that has reported Corona, whose first political official, is Italy, whose prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, has risen in popularity, even though his country was the epicenter of the virus in Europe. As for Brazil, the virus caused it to have an adverse political impact, as the popularity of the president, Jair Bolsonaro, who dealt with the logic of denial with the virus, fell as a "fantasy".
There is also a similar example in the Asian continent of the negative impact of "corona" on those above government chairs, which is the Prime Minister of Japan, Chizu Abe, whose popularity has decreased by 50% in one go because of his stuttering policy towards the virus, according to followers.