German election: Merkel attacks left as polls point to defeat

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Source: BBC

German election: Merkel attacks left as polls point to defeat

7 September 2021

Chancellor Angela Merkel has targeted the centre-left favourite in the race to succeed her, in what is likely to be her final appearance before MPs.

In a bid to bolster her own party's candidate ahead of Germany's 26 September elections, the outgoing leader was bitterly critical of Olaf Scholz, whose SPD is leading the polls.

Mrs Merkel warned that a vote for his party could let in the far left.

"Germany faces a choice of direction," she said.

Voters had two options, she said: either a government made up of the centre-left and the Greens "which accepts the support of the left-wing party, or at least doesn't exclude it", or a conservative-led government with her party's candidate Armin Laschet as head.

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Angela Merkel has been in power for 16 years but her successor as party candidate is languishing in the polls (Reuters)

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1. She Stayed Too Long

Time for some new blood and that looks like what is about to happen.

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2. And her imposing austerity on the EU in 2011 - just as they were recovering - pushed Europe down

Into a prolonged 'growth recession' that left them badly prepared for the Covid crisis, economically.

When you talk to Europeans, that's the one Merkel mistake they always bring up.