Spd first party, Scholz focuses on the Greens and Liberals

2021-09-30T14:09:39.690Z

The Germans woke up to a winner, the Social Democrat Olaf Scholz, but they still don't have a chancellor. And from today they live a new republic, which will see power based on the agreement between the parties: not the big ones, this time the game is in the hands of the young leaders of the Greens and liberals, who will begin to agree above all among themselves. The SPD therefore snatched the top spot and Scholz claimed the mandate to build a so-called 'traffic light' government. But Armin Laschet, who risks seeing his political career over, replied with an invitation "to humility". "With 25% you can't claim the chancellery," according to him. The Union leader has relaunched the prospect of opening a table for the 'Jamaica' coalition between conservatives, ecologists and Fdp,especially if Scholz were to fail. But the discontent towards him grows and risks becoming irrepressible. Markus Soeder, president of the Bavarian allies of the CSU, distanced himself: "For the Union it is a defeat, whoever loses so many votes cannot say anything else but this. And you cannot expect seconds, but only make an offer. "for the government. And there are those who have already asked for Laschet's resignation, even within the CDU. "The voters have given strength to three parties: SPD, Verdi and Fdp. These have a clear mandate to build the next government", underlined Scholz in an early morning statement, flanked by the two women who, together with him, have embodied since yesterday the rebirth of German social democracy. The first female mayor of Berlin, Franziska Giffey,and the minister president of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, who triumphed in the eastern Land. At the Willy Brandt Haus, the leader tried to hide the emotion in a broad smile as he gave a long applause from his teammates. "We see here a very happy SPD. Two winners and one winner", were his words to accompany the moment. A few hours later he answered the reporters' questions: "I slept well last night. When I woke up I looked at the data again and was happy about it again." It was not only he who was already speaking as chancellor, the questions he was asked - often in English - show who is considered Angela Merkel's successor after Sunday's vote. He was asked about relations with Moscow and Washington.While his colleague Laschet was forced to respond to the enormous problems within the party, which, according to secretary Paul Ziemiack, will now have to deal with "a brutal analysis" of the defeat. This too gives a sense of what happened yesterday. It is true that the distance from the CDU-CSU is thin, the Social Democrats took 25.7% against 24.1% of the Conservatives. But they have won over 5 points compared to 2017, while CDU and CSU have lost almost nine. And the analyzes on Laschet remain merciless: the weak candidate did not convince his own electorate, losing many consensus even among the elderly, who instead trusted the skills of the Finance Minister. According to the still not definitive results, the Greens obtained 14.8%, the liberals 11.5%, Afd 10,3 while Linke only touched the threshold with a disastrous 4.9%. However, she will remain in the Bundestag thanks to the three defeated colleges, which also ensure the recovery of the proportional share of seats. The downsizing of the large traditional parties is however the real novelty of these polls: the post Merkel era will see the end of the democracy of the chancellors, the political scientist Herfried Muenkler has been repeating for weeks, and it was Christian Lindner who announced the decision to open exploratory talks preliminaries with the Greens, in the person of co-leader Robert Habeck. A choice that ecologists have accepted: the premises are difficult, but "something new" may be born. Flanked by Annalena Baerbock, the star stumbled upon the many errors that have punctuated her electoral campaign,as she herself admitted, Habeck has regained centrality in the party. And he assured that he had "already clarified" internally the question of who will be vice-chancellor: the decisive box this time belongs to him, revealed the Faz.