Germany: one month before the elections, the SPD of Olaf Scholz takes again colors
SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz during his meeting in Berlin on August 27.
AP - Markus Schreiber
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We are voting in four weeks in Germany.
Elections which will mark a caesura with the departure of Angela Merkel after sixteen years in power.
The political cards are reshuffled and the polls in recent months have seen notable changes.
The Social Democrats, who have been the losers for months, are taking back their colors.
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From our correspondent in Berlin,
Pascal Thibaut
The Greens were in the lead before dropping significantly.
The Christian Democrats led by Armin Laschet are struggling to convince and are at their lowest.
Three polls put the Social Democrats in the lead this week.
Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz, the current Minister of Finance, held a meeting on Friday August 27 in the heart of Berlin, Place Bebel.
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Olaf Scholz, the candidate for the chancellery goes on stage in his shirt and speaks without text.
In the foreground, militants armed with red masks and other SPD flags.
In the back, sympathizers or onlookers.
A few hundred people.
The sun is shining, it's unexpected.
Minimum hourly wage of 12 euros
Olaf Scholz mentions Afghanistan to begin with, but especially insists on the social aspects of his program such as housing, pensions and the increase in the minimum wage.
"
I pledge that ten million people are increased and that the minimum wage goes from our first year in power to 12 euros an hour,
" he says.
This elderly SPD voter came to support his candidate.
He too is delighted with the latest encouraging polls for the Social Democrats.
“
I think he has the build of a chancellor.
With the polls on the rise, we must remain cautious but I hope they will be confirmed,
”he hopes.
This young twenty-year-old student came to see.
She does not yet know for whom she will vote on September 26 but wishes in any case that the Christian Democrats are not part of the future government despite an undisguised admiration for Angela Merkel with whom she grew up.
"
The credibility of the SPD has its limits because the party was in power in recent years and not much has happened
", nuance this indecisive.
In Germany, the suspense remains unresolved between now and the elections in a month.
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