Legislative in Germany: Angela Merkel in support of Armin Laschet for her last meeting

Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Prime Minister of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, head of the CDU and candidate for chancellor, Armin Laschet, at the last meeting before the legislative elections of September 26, in Aachen, September 25, 2021. REUTERS - WOLFGANG RATTAY

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel came to support the CDU candidate for her succession, Armin Laschet.

The curator gave a last meeting this Saturday, September 25 in Aachen, his hometown. 

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correspondent

,

Anastasia Becchio

Angela Merkel has spared no efforts to try to restore color to her party threatened with a poor electoral score.

After Munich, Friday, it is therefore in the west of the country that the Chancellor participated in her last campaign meeting alongside Armin Laschet.

From the stage, Angela Merkel called for making the right decisions: “ 

You decide your future government, which will ensure prosperity, security and peace. 

" 

In Aachen, a stone's throw from his favorite Greek restaurant, Armin Laschet was on conquered ground. Here, we mainly vote CDU. But if Angela Merkel remains very popular, this is less the case with the candidate for her succession. The blunders and missteps punctuated the

campaign of the conservative candidate

, slightly ahead of the Social Democrat

Olaf Scholz

.

Armin Laschet, however, has not lost hope that his party will come first on Sunday.

Once again, he wielded the rather hypothetical threat of a left turn and a 

red-red-green coalition

with the radical left Die Linke.

It would be damaging for the EU, he explained, in this city located at the crossroads of three European countries.

Europe, about which so little has been said, reappears at the right time on this last day of the campaign.

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