The Greens and the CDU seem to be more distant from each other than ever before. They are heading towards a common coalition – with Friedrich Merz as Chancellor.
A few more days and he’ll have it done. Two more big speeches, an almost North Korean election result, then even the last Merkelian will have to accept: Friedrich Merz, 68, CDU leader on the third attempt and now facing re-election, has kept his word. He established the Union and renewed it. And completely tailored to you.
From Monday, the CDU will celebrate an early coronation mass for its master at its party conference in Berlin. It will not be officially decided until late summer who will be the CDU and CSU’s candidate for chancellor. But only one person can be dangerous to the candidate with the short fuse: himself.
In surveys, the Union is around 30 percent. The Chancellor’s Party, the SPD, comes in at around half. The exciting question is not whether the man from Brilon in the Sauerland has a good chance of becoming Chancellor. The more exciting question is: who does he want to govern with?