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The three main candidates for the succession of Angela Merkel in the Chancellery

met again this Sunday on a television set

. Just a week before the appointment with the polls, the third debate agreed between the social democrat Olaf Scholz (SPD), the conservative Armin Laschet (CDU-CSU) and Annalena Baerbock (Los Verdes) was the last opportunity

to convince 40% of voters who remain undecided.

The polls have not moved for weeks and in a campaign as personalistic as it is being,

the core is not in the messages but in the messengers

. Polls reveal that they don't like any of them and this will be a problem. Without a majority, the formation of a government will be delayed in time and whoever directs it will not have, a priori, the great sympathies of the majority of the people. The electoral results are so important that

even Chancellor Merkel has decided not to go out on Sunday to cast her vote at the polls

. He will do it by mail, the latest trend in big cities. In Munich 463,000 voters have requested it, in Hamburg 498,000, in Berlin 859,000 and in the state of North Rhine Westphalia 29.5% of the electoral roll, compared to 17% four years ago.

According to the latest political barometer of the ZDF television network, the most complete in the country,

the SPD remains in the lead with 25% of the votes

. They are followed by the conservatives of the CDU-CSU (22%), The Greens (16%), Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the liberal FDP with 11% and the post-communists Die Linke with 6%. Such is the polarization that, if these forecasts are confirmed,

the grand coalition could not even be reissued

. The future Executive will be, at least, of three colors, and depending on how the negotiations proceed, it is possible that the CDU-CSU will be left alone in the opposition with the two most extreme parties of the parliamentary arch and with which Laschet rejects all collaboration, AfD and Die Linke.

The Legislative would suffer.

Kevin Kühnert, vice president of the SPD, former leader of the Socialist Youth and like the rest of the socialist executive far to the left,

has declared that if you re-edit the grand coalition, he will resign

.

It would be in vain.

His favorite, the one formed by the SPD, Greens and Die Linke, at the moment neither adds nor is desired, although in reality,

the electorate does not like any of the possible ones

.

The combination that would garner the most support would be a coalition of the SPD and Los Verdes, but with a preference of only 17%.

The rest of the possible coalitions go from the 9% that an SPD-CDU / CSU government would have downwards.

More incisors

Under that demographic sky,

the only surprise that occurred in the third and last televised debate was the attitude of the candidates

, who were more belligerent and incisive in the main problems that the electorate sees. The first is the environment and climate (47%) followed by the coronavirus (28%), migration (13%), social degradation (12%), pensions (10%), education (7%) and economic situation (6 %). In this country, with 6.5% unemployment,

unemployment is not among the concerns of the Germans.

Laschet offered

recipes for all these problems by default

in the debate

, warning of the risk that a left-wing government would pose.

Baerbock, with no government experience, offered a new and fresher way of tackling the challenges of the future and Scholz, juggling opposition to the government of which he has been finance minister.

The candidates have so little pull that when asked who they would like to have as chancellor,

48% answered Scholz

, 22% Laschet and 15% Baerbock.

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