The general election for Bundesag, the German parliamentary House, was not expected to arrive until September this year. But one day after US voters elected Donald Trump for their second term on November 6th, German Prime Minister Olaf Scholz spent months fighting over how to restore Germany’s struggling economy. He fired the Minister of Finance after leading to the collapse of Scholz three times. Party coalition government and call for snap elections.
The latest voting data, along with Bivaria’s sister CSU party, ranked third (16%) among voters behind the far-right alternative (20%) of the German or AFD party and the central right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Scholtz’s Social Democrats show between (29%).
CDUs are likely to emerge as the largest voter and are positioned to form a coalition government with one or two other parties. CDU prime minister candidate Friedrich Merz has formed a coalition government as all mainstream parties in Germany have vowed not to govern the AFD, which is under domestic surveillance due to the threat posed to German democracy. It may be difficult to do.
“I’m worried that it might take two months for the Union government to form after the election,” says Jana Puglierin, director of the Berlin office of the European Council of Foreign Relations. “When the coalition is in place, we need to draft a budget, and if we’re very lucky, this will all be done before the Congress’s summer holidays.”
The expected German political timetable is worried about observers due to the urgency of the next government to deal with multiple crises facing Europe’s biggest economy. These include economic recession, national debate on migration, and perhaps most importantly, as the Trump administration appears to be working with Russia to bring an end to the Moscow-Ukrainian conflict without inviting Europe to , includes how to navigate new global security instructions. Or Ukraine to the negotiation table.
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