A survey by the Ipsos Institute for the Spiegel news magazine found on Wednesday that 48% of respondents agreed fully with the statement that Merz’s government “has failed,” with a further 19% somewhat agreeing.
A survey by the Ipsos Institute for the Spiegel news magazine found on Wednesday that 48% of respondents agreed fully with the statement that Merz’s government “has failed,” with a further 19% somewhat agreeing.
He is a dumb, but extremely confident nepo baby whose only life experience outside of politics is sitting on the board of BlackRock’s German subsidiary. Of course, everything he does can be traced back to a gross misjudgement of his own abilities.
Yet he somehow managed to become Germany’s nominally most powerful person. IDK, neither explanation is quite satisfying.
Because there was no one else left. He failed to win the nomination against Merkel, against Laschet and finally against himself as he was only elected Chancellor in the end in a second round of voting which is unprecedented.
There were plenty of other people, his party’s members just didn’t want them.
Being the best of the worst isn’t a tall order.