geopolitics
The Germans go to the polls in the midst of geopolitical tension by the arrival of Trump to power in the US.
Heidi Reichinnek (to the center), the main candidate of the Left Party, and his followers. (Free Press Photo: EFE)
German conservatives will return to the government in Germany After a three -year parenthesis when winning the general elections this Sunday, But they will be forced to quickly form a coalition of government at a convulsive geopolitical moment and with a stronger ultra -right than ever in the opposition.
The conservative block formed by the Cristianodemocrata Union (CDU) and its sister Bavara the Social Cristian Union (CSU), They would have obtained between 28.4 % and 28.8 %, according to public chains forecasts ARD and ZDF
“We have won these elections to Bundestag (lower house). The world does not expect and either awaits us, or long and difficult coalition negotiations “said what will be the next chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz.
A coalition before April?
“The time has come to speak intensely between us, After the regional elections of Hamburg (March 2), no later than. I hope we have finished forming a government as too late at Holy Week, “in April, he told Phoenix chain.
The CDU will not have a majority in the lower house, for which 316 of the 630 seats are needed, So he will have to negotiate a coalition, probably three bands, although he would have liked to do it only with a force to give greater stability to the government.
If the Populist Left Party Alianza Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW) does not enter the Parliament -a forecast He sees him inside and another out- the figures would give for a ‘great coalition’ of social democrats and conservatives.
That at a time when Donald Trump’s new US administration shake the foundations of the transatlantic relationship, The Russian war in Ukraine is about to enter its fourth year with possible peace negotiations in which the European Union (EU) today will not have a chair at the table.
Merz said in fact that in the US there is a government “Who does not care what happens in Europe” and that “illusions” is not made regarding the administration of Donald Trump in the light of the interference in the German campaign of the technological tycoon Elon Musk.