Sunday, January 23, 2022

CDU Political Chatter

 In the past week, the new 'boss' of the CDU Party (Merkel's old group) has consolidated power.  Friedrich Merz is firmly in charge.

Newest rule handed down?  For all future 'big' meetings of the party.....cellphones will be forbidden within the rooms.  He says that he wants more people talking in the room between themselves and not worried or thinking of surveillance going on.

As for the dynamics of Merz?  He's absolutely NOT Merkel and leans more to the right than she did.

What you can take out of this?  I'd say the criticism of the SPD-Green-FDP coalition will be sharp, and center on economic failures/taxation issues. Come the 2025 election....Merz will be the guy running against Scholz, and it'll be a totally different election than the 2021 episode.  

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