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1. Whois Friedrich Merz?

Reply to Jose Garcia (Original post)

Sun Feb 23, 2025, 06:08 PM

8 hrs ago

Amongst other offices , the former Chairman of Black Rock in Germany. His Spiel- you guessed it, elect a businessman to fix the Government.

His policies - tac cuts, deregulation and closing the borders.

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Conservative opposition wins German election and the far right is 2nd with strongest postwar result [View all] Jose Garcia 8 hrs ago OP

Whois Friedrich Merz? speak easy 8 hrs ago #1

Right, close the borders with Poland, Czech, Austria, Switzerland, elleng 7 hrs ago #2

On the other hand, at least he's not in the pocket of Trump or Putin: Emrys 6 hrs ago #4

I think we are about to see the return to a multipolar world. SomewhereInTheMiddle 31 min ago #14

Immigration is a huge, huge issue in Germany though Polybius 3 hrs ago #8

At the moment, the projection is that the CDU/CSU could just form a majority coalition with the SPD muriel_volestrangler 6 hrs ago #3

Merz would be better off with the Greens in the coalition as well. speak easy 6 hrs ago #5

Duplicate SunSeeker 3 hrs ago #6

They might be slightly different enough to warrant both Polybius 3 hrs ago #7

Not different. Mine states the conservatives won, which was official this morning when I posted. SunSeeker 3 hrs ago #9

Fair enough Polybius 2 hrs ago #13

Yeah but PeterIsMyBrother 3 hrs ago #10

Yeah, pretty obvious.... SunSeeker 3 hrs ago #11

I've learned that hot topic headlines do get more bites, which is why I search around first Polybius 2 hrs ago #12

The header on this post is misleading! Germany has at least 6 parties. The other 5 despise the far rt party PortTack 3 min ago #15