To paraphrase Yogi Berra, “if Helmut Kohl was alive today, he’d be rolling in his grave.”
Pro-Merkel crowd is angling at getting either Soder (CSU out of Bavaria) or the Health Minister (Spahn) up on numbers to defeat Merz.
For info...Merz had a run-in with Merkel around ten years ago, and just quietly left the Berlin scene/politics. In the past year, he’s returned. Among party members...he’s probably got near 55 to 60 percent of their support.
Adding to this mess....six state elections are slated in 2021. By delaying this...it has consequences for the CDU Party in Baden-Wurttemberg (March election), Pfalz (March), and Thuringian (April).
It’s almost like they are stacking the deck to lose intentionally, and help bring Habeck of the Green Party to Chancellor status by the fall national election.
Has Frau Merkel made the choice to (finally!!) retire?
They seemingly could not stop electing her to more time in office, in spite of all the rape-fu-gees she has poisoned her countrysides with.