Friedrich was perised He will not have a simple task at the head of the German government. New Chancellor He must assume that from this Tuesday important problems, from reactivation of the country’s economy, to fulfill its commitment to reduce irregular migration in order to maintain support to Ukraine and deal with Alternative ultra -right boom for Germany (AFD)To which the problem of maintaining control over the state majority has now been added.
Conservative block and social democrats who will direct the country from this Tuesday They control 328 out of 630 places in the lower part of the houseThe adjusted majority, which demonstrated their restrictions on Tuesday, when the leader of the conservative failed in the first vote in order to be the chosen tenth chancellor of the Central European country.
In a historical failure that has never happened in the Federal Republic of Germany, 18 deputies of the ranks of negotiations on the coalition between the conservative bloc and the Social Democrats did not support himAlready creating the first state crisis. Finally, he exceeded the vote with 325 votes in total 328, which could receive from the entire coalition.
Despite the fragility of this majority now more than obvious, Mertz wants with these 328 places to give a “change of course” GermanyThe German economy added two years of recession in 2023 and 2024, the years when the German GDP fell, respectively, 0.3 % and 0.2 %, and by 2025 the authorities foresee stagnation. In addition, “the government must demonstrate that it can deal with immigration. This means that he monitors the will of the majority and reduces immigration, ”said EFE Wolfgang Merkel, political scientist of the Berlin Center for Social Sciences (WZB.
Migration, an urgent problem
A The fight against irregular migration is occupied by an outstanding place in the coalition agreement signed by CDUHis sister Bavar, the Union Christiana (CSU) and Social -Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) on Monday. In CDU/CSU and SPD, they define Germany as a “cosmopolitan country”, but they raise in this text, among other things, the need to “significantly reduce“ migration stimuli ”,“ organize and control migration ”and“ effectively stop uneven migration ”.
Mertz comes to power at a time when, first of all, local administrations feel pressure, suggesting the arrival of about a million asylum plaintiffs from Ukraine, to which refugees from other regions of the world are added. According to the Laboratory of Ideas, the initiative of European stability (ESI in English), based in Berlin, Germany has never arrived, as in the last three years, since about 850,000 people who are looking for asylum from other parts of the planet are added to 1.2 million Ukrainians. Since the 40s, there have not been so many migrants in Germany.
Mertz, leader close to Trump and Netanyahu
Analysts define this as impulsive and small dialogueWhat makes it difficult to control the minority. “He has problems with control and not say what he thinks,” explains the journalist Begona Kesada. Except, This is openly gluttonous and supporter of Donald TrumpThe field “He said that he was a man who was able to agree with Trump, who did not see him so difficult,” adds Caesada.
However, since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it was Corporate Defender of European Support of the Government Volodymyr ZelenskyThus, it seems, does not violate the consensus that the European Union plays a fundamental role in negotiations about the world.
