Election wind-up ball! Merkel’s party loses 2 key local elections as epidemic prevention measures cause public discontent

Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany.

Germany’s federal infectious disease agency, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), warned yesterday (14) that measures against the new coronavirus should not be relaxed. The Koch Institute (RKI) warned yesterday (14) that it could not relax measures to prevent the new coronary pneumonia (Chinese communist virus), and recently it was announced that members of the Christian Democratic Party, Germany’s largest party, were involved in a mask embezzlement scandal, and members of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Conservative Party were also punished by voters with their ballots, losing in two important local elections today.

The two election wars of the Conservative Party today are the new parliamentary elections in Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Wuerttemberg, which are considered to be the windward ball of the September 26 election, so the election losses of the Conservative Party members make the Conservative Party’s prospects worrying.

According to the latest polls, the support rate of Angela Merkel’s coalition government with the Democratic Party and the Socialist Party has fallen to a one-year low of about 30%, and the reason why the support rate is so low is because people are dissatisfied with the government’s Epidemic prevention measures.

And in the early stage of the epidemic, some MPs profited from the mask trade, and recently three MPs also stepped down for this reason, hitting the image of the coalition government, and the slow vaccination, and let the German people feel the bureaucratic style, and the implementation of free fast screening delayed, the German epidemic infection rate is still high, resulting in constant public discontent, but also deepened the conservatives’ electoral dilemma.

German media “Der Spiegel” (Der Spiegel) wrote: “If citizens feel that the government has done something to prevent the epidemic and lead the people through the crisis, we may be able to forget the mask incident, but the government did not do.”

German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Angela Merkel). Photo: Taken from النجيلاميركل- Angela Merkel Facebook