2021 will be the year that crosses out Angela Merkel’s title of German chancellor. After more than 15 years in power, Merkel is foreseen to quit emptying her seat to the Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Armin Laschet.
“It is not a normal election, we don’t have the incumbent, we don’t have someone defending office and therefore everybody has a good chance to become chancellor.” Says Lars Feld, director of the Walter Eucken Institut to CNBC.
However, the outcome of Germany’s historic vote this year remains uncertain. The outcome of the elections in the European country gets closer day after another while voters’ indecisive position occurs as counteract.
In comparison with the previous elections, the number of eligible people to vote in Germany recorded a fall of 1.3 million. This year, about 60.4 million people can head to decide Germany’s next leadership, 31.2 million of which are women whilst the remaining 29.2 million are men.
This shift emerged due to a demographic change that continues to register more deaths than births. Though migration has helped making the central European country’s population stable, Germany’s electorate is becoming older and smaller.
Issued by the Allensbach research institute for the conservative newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, a survey demonstrates that solely 60% of voters have decided which party they chose to root for, yet 40% remains undecided.
Some German citizens denounced that none of the top candidates was convincing, while others say waiting is better since a lot of events may occur before election day.
Recent projections indicate that Scholz’s SPD occupies 24% of the votes, followed by the conservative alliance (CDU/CSU) with 21% and the Green party with 17%.
The outcome is most likely to create a three-way coalition. Lars Feld commented on the situation stating “Probably, it will take three, four, five months this time as well because we are going to have a coalition of three parties and bringing them together won’t be easy,” he added that once conclusion are made “we will have a new chancellor and then there will be stability again.”
Germany’s overall stability is mandatory not only to Germany itself but also to the European union. As a country who has a big influence on the political direction of the other states, it is crucial that it remains stable.
Along her governance, Angela Merkel held her country through a number of crises, ranging from global financial one to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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