She will definitely fade (even) more into the background, but she remains chancellor until the new government is sworn in. With current surveys heavily favoring a 3 party coalition, it might be a...
once Merkel leaves office after the federal election on Sept. 26
She will definitely fade (even) more into the background, but she remains chancellor until the new government is sworn in. With current surveys heavily favoring a 3 party coalition, it might be a very long and tedious process - re-elections are unlikely but not impossible. I would not be surprised if she would stay chancellor into next year.
In the ECFR’s latest report entitled “Beyond Merkelism: What Europeans expect from post-election Germany,” published Tuesday, authors Piotr Buras and Jana Puglierin note that the post-Merkel political leadership in Germany will have no choice but to change its role in, and relationship with, the EU.
Not necessarily. The current leading party (according to surveys) is the SPD with its chancellor nominee Olaf Scholz. His nickname is already Merkel 2.0 because no one expects big changes by him and his style and direction seems to be similar. It would mean change within Germany, but unsure if anything from the outside perspective would change, to be honest.
But the surveys have gone wild the last few weeks, so let's see what will be the result in 10 days and what the parties do with it.
She will definitely fade (even) more into the background, but she remains chancellor until the new government is sworn in. With current surveys heavily favoring a 3 party coalition, it might be a very long and tedious process - re-elections are unlikely but not impossible. I would not be surprised if she would stay chancellor into next year.
Not necessarily. The current leading party (according to surveys) is the SPD with its chancellor nominee Olaf Scholz. His nickname is already Merkel 2.0 because no one expects big changes by him and his style and direction seems to be similar. It would mean change within Germany, but unsure if anything from the outside perspective would change, to be honest.
But the surveys have gone wild the last few weeks, so let's see what will be the result in 10 days and what the parties do with it.
After nearly 16 years as Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel has no clear successor in Sunday’s election