• Germany Merkel's CDU still unable to lead polls

  • Elections Germany looks at its navel in an electoral campaign that ignores Europe

The candidates for the German Chancellery held their last televised debate this Thursday, the last opportunity for the

40% of voters who are still undecided

to form an opinion and establish differences between the programs that, with about 50 pages each, very few are They have read. The round, which until now had been limited to the three highest-ranked candidates in the polls - the social democrat Olaf Scholz, the conservative Armin Laschet, and the environmentalist Annalena Baerbock - was extended to the liberal Christian Lindner and representatives of Die Linke (Left ) and the populist Alternative for Germany, AfD. And without any plausible explanation, the sixth guest on the set was the Bavarian Minister President and leader of the Christian Social Union (CSU),

Markus Söder.

The CSU does not have a national implantation, only in Bavaria, and the candidate of the conservative bloc that forms that party with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is Laschet.

The presence of Söder in the round only served to

further weaken Laschet,

second in the polls and against whom the Bavarian competed, unsuccessfully, for the candidacy.

Except for that peculiarity, there were no end-of-party fires.

Except for Laschet, who has introduced the issue of

security

in the final stretch of the campaign

,

about which he barely spoke before, even though one of the CDD-CSU stamps was no one left the script established by its strategists.

Rehearsed responses, attacks on the opponent already heard and, on the whole, an attitude in front of the cameras more directed at the viewer than at the audience.

Only the representative of AfD, Alice Weidel, crossed the red line on several occasions, with her already traditional

criticisms of migration

and the freedoms curtailed by the grand coalition during the coronavirus pandemic. Weidel could afford it. You don't have to lose and everything to gain. Excluded from any alliance by the rest of the formations, the objective of AfD is to consolidate the

11% of support

that the polls predict.

The final debate also did not serve to intuit the preferences of the leaders when negotiating a coalition, beyond the apparent closeness between Social Democrats and Greens, or Conservatives and Liberals. Each one fights for himself and the Chancellor, Angela Merkel, for no one. Just days away from becoming acting chancellor of her own government, Merkel is trying to get her life back. This Thursday he made a surprise visit to the city of Greifswald, in the federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. "I wanted to say 'Arrivederci' again," the president told a flower seller at a flea market.


Before, he walked through the pedestrian area of ​​the city, visited some shops, and took photos with pedestrians. Then he

visited the zoo and

took a picture of himself feeding some birds.

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