German Social Democrats tie in polls with Merkel's CDU

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The political climate in

is heating up and not only because the fiasco in Afghanistan has crept into the debate, forcing even Chancellor

to give explanations to Parliament for the delay with which the Executive launched the evacuation of the forces outstanding military and civilians in that country. Between the heavy floods last July in the federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia and the Taliban's seizure of power in Kabul, the polls of voting intention in the general elections on September 26 have yielded turn around.

Without campaigning properly so called, simply leaving the opponent to wear out, make mistakes, correct them or let his limits glimpse, the Minister of Finance and candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SPD),

, has risen like foam in the polls . Of the 15% that they gave him before the summer, Scholz was then in the third position, he has climbed to the first. If the elections were held this Sunday, Scholz would gather 22% of support. There would be a technical tie with the head of the list of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU),

, who continues in reverse evolution. In July, the CDU was at 30%.

Something similar has happened with the third candidate in the running,

, from the Green party. From being the hope of environmentalists and seeing himself occupying the office of Angela Merkel, Baerbock, who came to top the polls in May with 26%, has fallen to 16%. If the polls remain in the range that this Friday have drawn the polling institutes,

Scholz has risen to the podium in an electoral fight without a fight, stealthily, being the aggressive bottom.

, even when the CDU and its natural allies, the liberals of the FDP question his party's economic program because it is not theirs either.

Scholz does not represent the SPD apparatus, in the hands of a two-headed presidency with postulates far to the left.

Rebound turned into a candidate for Chancellor by those who previously rejected him as party president, Scholz feels comfortable in the fishing grounds of the center.

.

It is boring, but he has managed to cover his antipathy and arrogance with a

in the management of public money.

The rise of Scholz in the polls is not seen in his face and neither in that of party officials, who seem to have retreated in a career that the minister prefers to do his own way and alone. Everything is designed for him. In the electoral posters that have already become part of street furniture, the SPD does not appeal to its own. The usual images of workers in blue overalls and yellow helmets, smiling old men and children happily attending school have been replaced by Scholz's face and a slogan: "Sholz packt das an" (Scholz addresses it). It is the only candidate with

in government, regional and federal level.

And also, the only one who does not have to take advantage of his public appearances to apologize for the mistakes made.

Baerbock does it because of his oversights in the citation of his doctoral thesis and exaggerations in his resume.

The polls began to take their toll on the folksy Laschet for

while the Head of State, Frank-Walter Steinmeier expressed his condolences to those affected by the floods.

Add to that the fact that Laschet was, from the beginning, questioned as a leader in his party and by the Bavarian partners of the CSU.

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