The candidate of the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) is more than twice as popular as either of his main rivals
IF GERMANS VOTED for their chancellor directly, Olaf Scholz would be the favourite to succeed Angela Merkel after elections on September 26th. The candidate of the centre-left Social Democratic Party is more than twice as popular as either of his main rivals, Armin Laschet, of Mrs Merkel’s conservative Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian ally, the Christian Social Union ; and Annalena Baerbock, of the Greens . Unfortunately for Mr Scholz, that is not how Germany.
What does he want for Germany? He has promised to build more houses “to stop the excessive rise of rents,” a. He also pledges stronger climate protections and to turn Germany into a leading exporter of green-energy technology. His biggest priority, however, would be to increase the minimum wage from €9.60 an hour to €12. Mr Scholz boasts that Germany owes the introduction of a nationwide statutory minimum wage in 2015 to the SPD’s place in government.
Mr Scholz may be riding high in the polls, but Germany’s fragmented electorate makes the result of the election. After eight years together over two parliaments, neither the CDU/CSU nor the SPD are keen to revive their current “grand coalition”. More probable is that one of them joins with the Greens and the liberal Free Democrats to govern. A few weeks ago, Mr Scholz’s SPD looked likely to be sent back into opposition. Now it is a much tighter call.
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