Historic day in Germany, where 60 million voters are called to choose the color of the new era after Angela Merkel ( THE PROFILE ).
Polls open from 8 to 18: according to forecasts it will be a challenge to the last vote between the Social Democrat Olaf Scholz (favorite) and Armin Laschet of the CDU-CSU. Both have tried to place themselves in the wake of the chancellor who remained in power for sixteen years. Both, in case of victory, will have to face the grain of the coalition that will keep them in government. A knot that could take weeks to untie. Merkel knows this well and is preparing to govern again: the calendar of the next international missions is already ready for her.
The gap with Annalena Baerbock's Greens, Christian Lindner's liberals, Afd's ultra-right and Linke, poised for entry to the Bundestag, seems too unbridgeable now.
THE ALLIANCE NODE - Whoever wins will apparently have to count on the support of the liberals: the hypotheses under consideration are a coalition "traffic light" - red by SPD, Verdi and yellow by Fdp - "Jamaica" - black Cdu / Csu, Verdi, and yellow Fdp - or the less popular “Germany” (black Cdu / Csu, red Spd, and yellow Fdp).
THE PARLIAMENT - The new German Bundestag will presumably take office on October 26, as unanimously established by the Aeltestenrat, the Council of Elders of the Chamber of Deputies, made up of the governing bodies and parliamentary groups of all parties. This is the last possible day, according to the constitution, which provides thirty days for the first session of the deputies who will be elected by today's vote in Germany.
The outgoing Bundestag has 709 parliamentarians, the next could range from an assembly of 672 to 912 members, due to the compensation mechanism provided by the complex German electoral system based on two votes, one for the party and the other for direct mandates. .
(Unioneonline / D)
