Hélène Kohl, edited by Manon Fossat 9:47 a.m., September 21, 2021
Social Democrat Olaf Scholz, 63, on Sunday consolidated his status as favorite to succeed Angela Merkel by winning the last major televised debate of the three main candidates, a week of legislative elections badly underway for the curators of the chancellor.
It's the home stretch before Sunday's polls in Germany.
For these legislative elections, the big favorite to succeed Angela Merkel is none other than the Social Democrat Olaf Scholz.
The Minister of Finance was chosen by 42% winner of the last major televised debate of the three main candidates.
Whoever insists on his affiliation with the Chancellor is trying to restore color to the German left.
The "Scholzomat"
In this campaign, the Germans found him a nickname: the "Scholzomat", because he is like an automaton, impassive in all circumstances, calm, reassuring and serious.
A masculine Angela Merkel, notes a star TV columnist.
"If he was a woman he would even wear his blazers," he jokes.
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Olaf Schulz proposes an increase in the minimum wage and a wealth tax.
But its program is rather central.
Like Merkel, he refuses to allow Germany to go into debt.
He also finds it very good that there are common stability rules in Europe.
As for the climate, it sticks to the compromise negotiated last year with the right, which does not provide for an exit from coal until 2038.
A continuity so assumed with the outgoing government that the Chancellor had several times to return the church to the center of the village and recall that her real heir is the other candidate, Armin Laschet, from the CDU, with whom she will be d 'elsewhere this Tuesday evening in a meeting.