Expected with hope in Europe, the winner without glory of the German legislative elections Friedrich Merz must be invested Chancellor this Tuesday, May 6. The curator will take the reins of a Germany weakened by the blows of Donald Trump, and forced to reinvent himself under the threat of a strong progression of the extreme right.
Whoever proclaims that “Germany is again on the rails”, faces enormous challenges. At the head of the first European economy at a time of geopolitical tilting, where Europe seeks to free itself from the military supervision of an American ally which has become unpredictable and where Germany has been in economic excess since 2018.
Tenth Chancellor of modern Germany
From 7 am, the new Chamber of Deputies intends to elect the head of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) at the head of the government. This 69 -year -old training lawyer is an old road from German politics but who has never held an executive post. Under the dome of the Reichstag, filling up with the voices of his camp and the social democrats (SPD), with whom he definitively sealed a coalition contract on Monday, will be enough to rally the absolute majority of the 630 elected officials. He will be in the wake confirmed tenth chancellor of modern Germany by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who will receive him at the presidential palace of Bellevue.
An appointment to the air of revenge for Friedrich Merz, dismissed from power in the early 2000s by his conservative rival Angela Merkel, which had led him to withdraw from politics.
“Restore his pride” to the country
The curator will take over from the social democratic Olaf Scholz, severely beaten in February after the collapse of his coalition against the backdrop of differences that have become insurmountable on budgetary priorities. Friedrich Merz on Monday promised to “move forward” Germany in these times “of great uncertainty”.
On Monday, he spoke of a “historic duty to lead this coalition towards success”, while the extreme right bets on a failure to win the next legislative elections of 2029. In the midst of a geopolitical crisis, the conservative will “run a marathon on a tightrm,” comments the political scientist and author Michael Bröning, warning against the “smallest vacuum”. »»
At the top of its priorities: “to give back its pride” in the country, faced with a deep crisis of its industrial model, that the commercial war of Donald Trump could aggravate.
