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Now we have the far-right - the AfD - and the fact they got such a good election result is something we cannot accept and I will never accept,
I am aware of the responsibility,
In time, we will get there,
said a smiling Stephan Moller, a senior figure and elected official in the Thuringia branch I have no illusions at all about what is happening from America,
The people of Germany got tired of the no common sense agenda, especially on energy and immigration,
said Trump, whose surrogates have hounded Scholz's outgoing administration Germany has learned the hard way over the last three years that such coalitions are anything but stable and severely limit the government's ability to act,
These are difficult starting conditions for a new German government, which is facing Herculean tasks in domestic and foreign policy,
said Cornelia Woll of the Hertie School Berlin But now we will talk to each other,
Merz said, striking a far more conciliatory tone We have seen the center is weakened overall, and everyone should look at themselves and ask whether they didn’t contribute to that,
The world out there isn’t waiting for us, and it isn’t waiting for long-drawn-out coalition talks and negotiations,
he told cheering supporters You want the opposite of what we want, so there will be no cooperation,
We are now the political center and we have left the fringes behind us,
It won’t be able to implement it with left-wing parties,
The election result is poor and I bear responsibility,
Scholz told SPD party members, while congratulating conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz, whose party came out on top We- the @CDU and the @CSU have won this federal election. Thank you for the trust you have placed in us and in me. And in this context I would like to say a word of respect for our political competitors. We will now quickly fulfill our government mandate, because the world out there is not waiting for us. Nor is it waiting for long coalition talks and negotiations. We must now quickly become capable of action again,
Merz stated in a post on X, following his victory in the elections We look forward to continuing our joint work with Germany to protect lives, bring real peace closer to Ukraine and strengthen Europe. Europe must be able to defend itself, develop its industries and achieve the necessary results. Europe needs shared successes, and those successes will bring even greater unity to Europe."
[Mer ... Merz] appears inclined to take the easiest option, and that is a so-called 'Grand Coalition,' once more with the SPD. However, this coalition, unlike past grand coalitions, will have none of the splendor or dynamism: In fact, we might best consider it a grim coalition, more with the energy of a funeral that everyone has to go to but no one wants to be there."
He's identified immigration and the economy as the two main drivers of voter dissatisfaction with the previous governments, plural, and he's positioned his party to answer those frustrations,
The disparagement strategy was employed against AfD, trying to frame them as far-right, fascist, etc,
Merz has been very firm in maintaining the so called firewall that would prevent any coalition agreement with AfD, and at the basic level, any coalition with AFD would rip the CDU/CSU apart,
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