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“What Europe needs today is leadership, not vassals who pay homage to Trump,” said Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz.
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Merz is a weak loser, always has been. But, it seems thats what the germans want, “always on the wrong side Friedrich”.
he is deeply unpopular within his own party to the point that his performa election had to be done twice which never happened before.
…and he and his party were generally considered the lesser evil and a compromise at best
the twin parties he ran for scored 28.5% idk if that qualifies for “thats what Germans want”
He still won the election against far more qualified candidates that are grounded in reality (Habeck for example). He is deeply unpopular but according to polls, he would still win the election. So, yes thats what Germany wants.
Edit: Polls
habeck while competent ran for the very unpopular greens. his popularity didn’t go unnoticed, thats why the campaigns to seed fear of greens accelerated dramatically over the years. can’t have a popular competent person as head of them. back when people like claudia roth were in tje spotlight, greens were mere laughing stock they didn’t take seriously .
thats why all the old people get bombard with all the anti green “news” constantly for years
Yeah, I know all of that. As a german speaker in Europe you know german politics. My point still stands, germans voted against competency and for Merz. So this is what germans want. By the way, the goverment in my country is usually way worse than the German one, but not at the moment (just equally bad) and thats also what the Austrians want. Doesn’t mean every Austrian wants it.
His approval rate is 22% so even lower thsn the clown trump
Well, germany is not a hyper-polarized two party system. So this is to be expected.
So easier to vote for people you approve than who you don’t approve but have better to win and that you consider lesser evil than other candidates
