China News Service, November 24. According to a comprehensive foreign media report on the 24th, sources revealed that Germany has initially finalized an agreement for the formation of the next government. The candidate for the chancellor of the German Social Democratic Party (Social Democratic Party), the current Deputy Chancellor and Minister of Finance Olaf Schauer, Ertz became the next prime minister, becoming the successor to Merkel, who has served as the country's prime minister for 16 years.
Data map: A pedestrian passes by the campaign panel of the SPD candidate for Chancellor Schultz on the streets of Berlin, Germany.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Peng Dawei
Candidates for the next chancellor of Germany are finalized
The three parties will announce a plan to form a cabinet
According to reports, after two months of consultations, the German Social Democratic Party, the Green Party and the Liberal Democratic Party will hold a press conference at 3 pm Central European Time to present relevant plans for the joint formation of the next government. It is expected that the Social Democratic Party will return to power for the first time in 16 years. .
There is also news that Schultz has signed an alliance agreement to become the next German Chancellor.
In September, Germany held the Bundestag election. Scholtz’s Social Democratic Party received 25.7% of the votes, ranking first; Merkel’s Coalition Party ranked second; the Green Party and the Liberal Democratic Party ranked third and fourth respectively.
It was previously reported that the Social Democratic Party and the Coalition Party hope to form an alliance with the Green Party and the Liberal Democratic Party to occupy more than half of the seats required to form a cabinet in the House.
After that, the Social Democratic Party, the Green Party and the Liberal Democratic Party jointly launched negotiations for the formation of a cabinet.
According to the news, the relevant parties intend to elect Schultz as the new Chancellor of Germany in the week beginning on December 6. If according to this timetable, the outgoing German Chancellor Merkel will not be able to break the record of former Chancellor Kohl. Will not become Germany's longest-serving prime minister after World War II.
On October 26, local time, German President Steinmeier officially handed Merkel the notice of the end of his term of office at the government's retirement ceremony.
On October 26, Merkel, who served as Chancellor of Germany for 16 years, officially received the end of her term. She will continue to assume the role of caretaker until the completion of the next government cabinet.
Who is Schultz?
"Most like Merkel's candidate"
Born in 1958, Scholtz has rich political experience and served as the chairman of the Social Democratic Party and the mayor of Hamburg.
After the 2017 Bundestag election, he was appointed Deputy Chancellor of Germany and Federal Minister of Finance.
In this general election, Schultz was not optimistic at first, but later came to the top.
In recent years, the popularity of the Social Democratic Party has risen strongly in the month before the election, which is largely attributed to Scholtz's "personal charm."
Data map: Scholtz.
With multiple rounds of television debates, Schultz's performance in the general election left a calm and steady impression. He was even dubbed a "robot" by the German media because of his dull personality.
In the face of crises such as the new crown epidemic and floods, he responded vigorously, introduced large-scale economic stimulus plans, kept the unemployment rate at a low level, and quickly introduced disaster relief plans. The performance of his governance has been that he and the Social Democratic Party have added a lot of points.
German media commented that Schultz's experience as finance minister will enable him to gain greater international recognition.
He himself once said: "Politics involves global politics and European politics, and it is to combine international and European politics with German politics."
During the campaign, Schultz also called for the EU to be united in order to stay close on the global stage, and emphasized the importance of cooperating with the United States and NATO.
The German Social Democratic Party will regain power for the first time in 16 years. What steps will Schultz take with the party forming the cabinet?
As the "main backbone" of the EU, in the "post-Merkel era", the changes in the direction of internal affairs and diplomacy and the drag and influence on the EU will become the focus of the international community.