Germany‘s largest party, the Christian Democrats, has members of parliament involved in a masks corruption scandal, and frequent failures to deal with the Epidemic, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party comrades are expected to be punished by voters, in today’s 2 important local elections suffered a defeat.
The new parliamentary elections in Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Wuerttemberg are seen as a windfall for the September 26 elections, but conservative lawmakers are worried about the prospects.
Recent polls show that the support for Angela Merkel’s center-right Christian Democratic Party (CDU)/Christian Socialist Party (CSU) coalition government has fallen to a one-year low of about 30 percent, and the public is dissatisfied with the government’s handling of the epidemic as the main reason.
Bild, Germany’s number one newspaper, said the conservatives should be “slapped in the face by the voters”.
The Christian Democrats and the Christian Socialists were hit hard by news that some lawmakers appeared to have benefited from the mask trade at the beginning of the epidemic, and three lawmakers were recently forced to step down.
The slow and bureaucratic pace of vaccination, the delay in implementing free rapid screening, and the high rate of infection despite months of closures, have all contributed to public discontent and deepened the plight of conservatives.
The German weekly Der Spiegel wrote, “If citizens felt that the government was doing something to fight the virus and get us through the crisis,” we might be able to forget about the “mask incident. “But the government didn’t.”
In Laing-Faal sub-state, the left-of-center Social Democrats (Social Democrats) have overtaken the Christian Democrats in the polls, paving the way for the popular Governor Malu Dreyer to form a coalition government with the Greens and the pro-business Liberal Democratic Party (FDP).
The elections in Baden-Württemberg, the only state in Germany where the Greens are governor, are of the utmost interest.
Baden-Württemberg, which is currently governed by left-leaning ecologists and the Christian Democrats, may serve as a reference for the first post-Merkel federal government.
But polls show that the Christian Democrats’ support in the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg is at an all-Time low, while the Greens continue to expand their lead.
The Greens’ national support has also been rising in recent years amid growing concerns about climate change.
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