Friedrich Merz revealed he had invited Benjamin Netanyahu to visit and would find a way for Netanyahu to visit Germany without being arrested.
Friedrich Merz revealed he had invited Benjamin Netanyahu to visit and would find a way for Netanyahu to visit Germany without being arrested.
Apparently I misinterpreted this statement by Scholz. I initially thought when I heard about it, he was speaking on behalf of the whole SPD and not just himself.
Interesting. I hadn’t seen that. But if you feel you misinterpreted it, does that mean the grand coalition is the most likely outcome?
Most likely outcome? Probably. Most favourably, though? Probably not.
What coalition would you rather see? It would take a lot of parties to do one without SPD or AfD.
A minority government of Red-Green-Red (SPD, Grüne, Linke) would force the conservatives to either work productively with the other democratic parties or side with the fascists of the AFD. It would basically boil down to whether or not Merz will do again what he promised he wouldn’t do (working with the AFD). Should he do that, I very much expect the CDU to “decapitate” itself by splitting from left to right: The MAGA people around Merz, Linnemann, Spahn and Dobrindt get ousted by the traditional conservatives.