Last night, via German public TV (Channel One, ARD), they ran a live public forum show (9:45 PM)....the Anne Will Show.
It was mostly to talk over the pension supplement reform business, but they had the temp-chief of the SPD (Malu Dreyer) and the chief of the CDU (AKK, who also serves as the Defense Minister).
I ended up watching the last 25 minutes of the forum, which I would say that it'd drifted off the pension topic and gotten to the disarray of politics in Germany (at least perceived by journalists).
Journalists seem to have woken up in the past year and grasped that there really isn't that much being achieved by Chancellor Merkel and that the country needs new leadership. Their blunt criticism is mostly over the failed idea of AKK filling the shoes (at least they believe that), and there is this vacuum forming in the German political world.
If you engaged in a chat in some pub with working-class Germans.....they'd let you know that frankly, they don't care to this degree. It's not like the Chancellor is going out to save them, their families, or their neighborhoods. If the news folks just had one single story over an entire week about the Chancellor....that would be fine with most of these people.
It seems now that about half of the German nightly news is consumed over the political spectrum, and trying to make a mountain out of a molehill.
As for the shaking of the 'leadership-tree'....well, there should have been some effort within the CDU Party after eight years of Chancellor Merkel (in 2013), to bring on a replacement. The Party didn't seem interested, and they stamped a 'pass' on that.....as well in 2017.
Some of these forum shows attempt to bring on interesting topics.....in the end with this one....there's just not much to chat upon. If you want a new Chancellor.....you need to wait until the fall of 2021, and then assemble the choices for the public to select from.
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