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If Angela Merkel gives up the chancellorship after 16 years this autumn, she will leave a country that is neither prepared for the future nor equipped for the present.

A country that is unable to vaccinate its own citizens, while other nations are supplied with vaccines developed in Germany.

A reporter for the "New York Times" reported in disbelief about a German chemotherapy patient who was not vaccinated in this country because of an incorrectly completed form.

The offices are still faxing.

Germany is digitally below the level of many emerging countries.

Other decisions were made a long time ago and will have an impact for a long time to come: the emotionally justified nuclear phase-out that is damaging the climate;

the mindless action in the migration crisis, the effects of which are shaking society to this day;

associated with this is the opening of the political gap in which the AfD romps today.

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In 1999 the Chancellor had put her predecessor Helmut Kohl as party chairman aside with an article in the FAZ.

It was about the donation affair, of course, but also about more.

Merkel mentioned the lost federal election in 1998: “what a defeat”.

Today, with her as the most prominent leader, the CDU is losing one state election after the other.

Several party members are corrupt, the donation affair sends its regards.

Merkel is not responsible for everything and everyone, but shaped the structure of the party for 18 years.

The fact that there has been almost no misconduct in their cabinets in recent years is encouraging the Löbels of the world.

"The people - especially in the party - are attached to Helmut Kohl," wrote Merkel in 1999, but inadequately hid her lack of understanding between the lines.

Today she feels the same way.

She is sympathetic to many citizens, has felt there forever.

At that time she called for the party to be wrested from Kohl: The CDU had to "break away from home like someone in puberty and go their own way".

Laschet is only supported by about half of the CDU

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She herself is not threatened with a radical cut, she has got rid of all those who could have been dangerous to her.

Where a replacement process has begun, it is hesitant and vague.

The new party chairman Armin Laschet is only supported by around half of the CDU at all.

In 1999 Merkel wrote in the FAZ regarding the donation affair: "The incidents admitted by Helmut Kohl have caused damage to the party".

Those of Angela Merkel were meanwhile also responsible.