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Quadriga: Election setback – How wounded is Merkel?
Following a fourth straight election setback in just a few months, Angela Merkel has been showing some emotion. She has even admitted to making mistakes. But how credible is the chancellor’s change of tone? Is it perhaps just an election strategy?
There has been growing discontent in the ranks of Merkel’s conservative CDU party. Ahead of next year’s national election, critics have been asking whether the chancellor has lost her winning touch. Among her biggest opponents is Horst Seehofer, nominally one of her allies. He’s the head of the CDU’s Bavarian sister party, the CSU.
Possibly the biggest challenge facing Angela Merkel and her party is to win over the 67 per cent of voters who, according to one poll, believe that the CDU no longer has the concerns of ordinary people at heart.
Meanwhile, the chancellor’s own ratings have been plummeting. Some are asking whether the Merkel era is slowly drawing to a close. So what can the chancellor do to revive her fortunes? And if she were to throw in the towel, who would replace her?
Tell us what you think as: quadriga(at)dw.com
Our guests:
Derek Scally is a correspondent for the Irish Times. He says: “Merkel remains unchallenged inside her party -- for now. But she is wounded if her SPD coalition partners and Left Party make good on their post-election signals to join forces with the Greens for a centre-left coalition to oust the chancellor next year.”
Alan Posener is an author and commentator for the daily newspaper „Die Welt. He says: “Nobody is challenging Merkel's leadership of her party and the country. And indeed, nobody wants her job right now. Why should she be worried?”
Pascale Hugues is a french journalist and author. She says: “Welcome in the club! Angela Merkel is getting a rival on her right like everybody else in Europe."
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By DW.COM | Deutsche WelleFollowing a fourth straight election setback in just a few months, Angela Merkel has been showing some emotion. She has even admitted to making mistakes. But how credible is the chancellor’s change of tone? Is it perhaps just an election strategy?
There has been growing discontent in the ranks of Merkel’s conservative CDU party. Ahead of next year’s national election, critics have been asking whether the chancellor has lost her winning touch. Among her biggest opponents is Horst Seehofer, nominally one of her allies. He’s the head of the CDU’s Bavarian sister party, the CSU.
Possibly the biggest challenge facing Angela Merkel and her party is to win over the 67 per cent of voters who, according to one poll, believe that the CDU no longer has the concerns of ordinary people at heart.
Meanwhile, the chancellor’s own ratings have been plummeting. Some are asking whether the Merkel era is slowly drawing to a close. So what can the chancellor do to revive her fortunes? And if she were to throw in the towel, who would replace her?
Tell us what you think as: quadriga(at)dw.com
Our guests:
Derek Scally is a correspondent for the Irish Times. He says: “Merkel remains unchallenged inside her party -- for now. But she is wounded if her SPD coalition partners and Left Party make good on their post-election signals to join forces with the Greens for a centre-left coalition to oust the chancellor next year.”
Alan Posener is an author and commentator for the daily newspaper „Die Welt. He says: “Nobody is challenging Merkel's leadership of her party and the country. And indeed, nobody wants her job right now. Why should she be worried?”
Pascale Hugues is a french journalist and author. She says: “Welcome in the club! Angela Merkel is getting a rival on her right like everybody else in Europe."