For a distant observer, it was widely expected that the leader of the most voted party in the latest German elections, Friedrich Merz of the mainstream ‘Conservative’ party CDU was going to make sure nothing changed in the floundering former European power.
And, while elected promising reform, Merz immediately courted the current parties, forming the train-wreck administration of Olaf Scholz, the least popular German Chancellor in decades.
So, he is negotiating with Scholz SPD to accept half a million migrants a year; he flirts with the Greens that he’ll make sure that their climate lunacy is enshrined into the constitution – and maybe he will support their push to ban right-wing AfD.
And that’s not all: Merz has worked to scrap longstanding caps on government expenses – but his spending spree plans have generated a domestic political blowback.
Reuters reported:
“An INSA poll published on Sunday showed 73% of all voters and 44% of CDU/CSU supporters felt deceived. Support for the group fell one point to 27% while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) gained one to 23%.”
At this point, the margin between the CDU and AfD is just four points, half the gap of four weeks ago ago when the election took place.
“’The CDU/CSU has failed to deliver on its pre-election promises with the debt package’, INSA head Hermann Binkert told Bild. ‘Some disappointed voters are turning to the AfD’.”
Merz unveiled his extravagant spending plans only nine days after winning the February 23 election – ‘following a campaign in which he had promised not to open the spending tap’.
“Parliament approved the plans last week, jettisoning decades of fiscal conservatism in hopes of reviving economic growth and scaling up military spending for a new era of European collective defense as the U.S. pulls back from Europe.”
However, CDU voters are deeply unhappy with the move and its justification.
Andrea Wolf, of pollster group Forschungsgruppe Wahlen: “But voter reaction to Merz’s decision will surface in the polls in the coming weeks, Wolf said. ‘It is quite likely that this will cost the (CDU/CSU) and Friedrich Merz support’.”
Before the election, Merz went as far as saying that ‘today’s debts are tomorrow’s tax increases’ – but acted in an opposite way.
A second poll by Forsa published last week also showed that the gap between the CDU and AfD was reduced to only four points.
“’If citizens’ expectations are once again disappointed by the new federal government, it cannot be ruled out that the AfD will become the strongest party in the next general election, not only in the east of the country, but in the whole of Germany’, said Manfred Guellner, head of pollster Forsa.”
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