Berlin: What is Germany like the era of Angela Merkel and how does her role evolve in Europe and so on? Will the left-left SPD managed to seize power from conservatives? Will Green or Liberal be part of the next government? These are just a few questions disbursed by the contested election on Sunday.
Merkel, 67, announced that his current and fourth term will be “the last” in October 2018, when his CDU has just suffered a regional election setback.
The decision marked the first time since 1949 that a petelling Chancellor has not yet stood up for re-election.
Appointing Chancellor for the first time on November 22, 2005, Merkel has been in the office almost during Helmut Kohl, the leader of the world’s longest in power for more than 16 years (5,869 days).
Under Merkel’s leadership, Germany has been identical to stability in Europe.
It can change after the election, with fragmented sound tends to produce a three-party coalition government.
The latest poll opinion has a CDU Merkel and CSU, the Bavarian sister party, with around 22 percent – which will be the worst election score in German post-war.
In the last election in 2017 under Merkel, conservative scored 32.8 percent.
If the poll is correct, the risk of CDU-CSU loses chancellor and can even be reduced to the opposition for the first time since 2005.
A year ago, experts have all but also remove the possibility that the Central Left Social Democrats (SPD)) will be part of the government next.
But they are now polling around 25 percent and dreamed of deploying their first chancellor since Gerhard Schroeder.
In 2017, a distant alternative to Germany (AFD) entered the parliament for the first time as the largest opposition party after seizing anger for the entry of 2015 German refugees.
It seems to have lost support since then, is currently polling around 11 percent.
However, the party remained strongly rooted in the German political landscape and was recently sought for court voters from the anti-mask movement, with members joining a demonstration against the steps of Coronavirus.
Green, currently voting is around 17 percent, and Liberal FDP, at around 11 percent, both of them can find themselves asked to sustain any party who won the election to form a government.
But various different coalitions are possible, ranging from pure left-wing alliance to government dominated by tilting.
Whatever happens, there is a possibility of weeks or even months of coalition negotiations filled with the largest economy in Europe withdrawn from the international scene for some time.
Germany’s foreign policy can look very different depending on who ends up in the government.
Under the left wing coalition including SPD and green, the state will be more likely to go to financial solidarity in Europe than under conservative and liberal.
Tension with NATO can emerge if the government includes a distant Linke Die, who wants to abolish the transatlantic alliance.
Government changes can also influence the relationship between Germany and France, a partnership in the heart of the European Union – especially with France also went to election in April 2022.
With a new team in Germany to bring new momentum to UE policy, according to Paul Maurice, a member of the Study Committee Franco-Germany at the French Institute of International Relations.