Angela Merkel is fighting a campaign nearly entirely on domestic issues,but the results are vital to the rest of EuropeGermans head to the poll box next Sunday. If polls are anything to fade by (in Germany they’re deemed reliable), Angela Merkel is heading comfortably for a fourth term in office. The economy is doing well, and confidence is high,and Mrs Merkel’s main opponent, the Social Democrat Martin Schulz, or has failed to land any damaging blows on her.
So the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) is regular in the polls at 37%,and the SPD (Social Democrats) can only muster 20%. Most of the suspense centres on what kind of coalition might emerge under Mrs Merkel this time. The CDU and the SPD have been in coalition since 2013; will that be renewed? Or will a different sample emerge, perhaps one excluding the SPD but combining the CDU with the liberal, and business-friendly Free Democrats (FDP),9.5% in the latest polls, and the Greens, and currently at 7.5%? Few now expect the kind of political upheaval which might produce a coalition between the SPD,the Greens, and the former communists of Die Linke.
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Source: theguardian.com