Europe's security trumps debates about my future, Germany's Merz says
Merz said Europe’s security must come first as an INSA poll found 78% of Germans do not think he should remain chancellor.
- On Monday, Chancellor Friedrich Merz urged colleagues to look beyond domestic debates, warning that European security is entering a decisive phase amid his record-low approval ratings.
- The right-wing AfD trounced Merz's conservatives in a state election last week, calling for a 180-degree turn in Germany's policy toward Russia and a restoration of ties with Moscow.
- Municipal elections in Lower Saxony saw the CDU win 27.2% of the vote, yet an INSA poll shows 78% of people oppose Merz as chancellor, with 58% of his own party seeking new leadership.
- Clara von Nathusius, treasurer of the CDU's youth wing, said the party has a credibility problem, telling ARD that "no more elections can be won with this chancellor."
- Facing a sterner test in two more state elections on Sunday, Merz is attempting to convince his party that European security is "much more important than some of the domestic debates we actually have.
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Today's state elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania will test the political endurance of German Chancellor Merz, in a government coalition that is creaking The post Chancellor on borrowed time – The moment of truth for Friedrich Merz appeared first on in.gr.
Europe's eyes are firmly focused on two elections in Germany this weekend.
This Sunday regional authorities are elected in Berlin and Pomerania.The Alternative Party for Germany (AfD) expects another triumph after the historic advance in Saxony-Anhalt, two weeks ago.Complex Panorama for Friedrich Merz's government.
In the last polls before the vote on Sunday, the Cdu is at 20% in the capital, exceeded by one point by the Linke, with Alternative für Deutschland in the wake at 18%. In the Land on the Baltic, the Chancellor's party hangs on the barrier threshold
A few hours after the end of the election campaign, the parties spent the last 'cartridges' in search of votes. In the center of Schwerin, capital of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in East Germany, the SPD carried out the last street action
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