Germany: Angela Merkel renews her support for Armin Laschet
Angela Merkel during her last address to the Bundestag on September 7, 2021. REUTERS - MICHELE TANTUSSI
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With less than three weeks before the elections, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has once again given her support to the conservative candidate Armin Laschet, in great difficulty.
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The final session of the German Parliament on Tuesday, September 7 turned into a very lively electoral debate.
In front of the Bundestag, for her final speech to this assembly before the September 26 elections, Angela Merkel drew a positive assessment of her action, reports
our correspondent in Berlin,
Pascal Thibaut
.
The Chancellor also attacked her
Vice-Chancellor Olaf Scholz head-on
.
She criticized the Social Democratic candidate for chancellery, leading in the polls, for not excluding a coalition of the left which would include the left party, the distant heir of the East German Communist Party.
The choice of "
stability, reliability
"
Angela Merkel also openly called to vote for her party candidate
Armin Laschet
who attended the debates. “
This election is out of the ordinary,
” she said.
Not just because for the first time since 1949 a head of government does not represent himself. It is also an important election which implies a decisive choice in a particularly difficult period. It doesn't matter who runs this country. Voters have a choice in a few days. Either they opt for a coalition between Social Democrats and Greens who accept the support of the left party Die Linke. Either they choose a government led by the Christian Democrats and Armin Laschet, guarantor of stability, reliability and moderation
and this is what Germany needs.
"
The candidate of the conservative camp in bad shape
After having long withdrawn from the electoral campaign, the Chancellor, who is preparing to leave politics after having led the government for 16 years, has changed her strategy in recent weeks in the face of disastrous polls for the Christian Union- Democrat (CDU).
She had already pleaded for the unpopular Armin Laschet on Sunday during a visit to the areas affected by the floods.
She has also increased in recent weeks trips to her side and attacked the SPD, which is a surprise in this campaign, since the Social Democratic Party is credited with around 27% of the vote.
The CDU and CSU, which had collected 32.9% of the vote in 2017, continued to tumble in the polls during the summer, weighed down in particular by the management considered poor of the catastrophic floods of mid-July.
The Union camp currently only registers around 20% of voting intentions.
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