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Schwerin (dpa / mv) - Chancellor Angela Merkel's (CDU) waiver of a renewed candidacy for the Bundestag could, in the opinion of left-wing parliamentary group leader Dietmar Bartsch, play into his party's cards, especially in eastern Germany.
“That also increases the chances for the left,” said Bartsch on Tuesday in Schwerin, where he took part in a retreat of the left faction in the state parliament.
Merkel had shaped the politics of the Union for many years, which will now run for the Bundestag election in September with new leadership.
"With Armin Laschet, the CDU has a federal chairman, it doesn't get any further west," said Bartsch.
Merkel had won her constituency in Western Pomerania directly since 1990 and also brought many second votes to the CDU.
At the federal level, the left is about to achieve a double-digit election result, said Bartsch.
In 2017, she just missed it.
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Bartsch also sees a good chance of improving the last moderate election result of his party there for the state elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, which will take place on September 26th.
In the north-east, the Union must also forego the Merkel effect.
In addition, she is running for election with a new chairman and without her most famous politicians.
With Simone Oldenburg as the designated top candidate, Die Linke is sending an experienced state politician with a high level of competence and reputation into the race.
If the left can benefit from this and gain votes, an end to the SPD / CDU coalition that has been in power since 2006 and a “center / left constellation” is conceivable.
"If there are appropriate results on election evening, we are definitely not the ones who fail to make a policy change," emphasized Bartsch.
According to a Forsa survey published in mid-January on behalf of the "Ostsee-Zeitung", the SPD currently has 26 percent in state elections, the CDU 24. It is followed by the Left with 16 percent, the AfD with 14, the Greens with 10 and the FDP with 3 percent.
In purely mathematical terms, the red-black coalition could just about continue the government work, but red-red-green would also be possible.
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