Friedrich Merz, Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader and chancellor candidate, has ruled out an alliance with the Green party. Nonetheless, he has hinted that his stance could change if the Greens were to take a different course. In an opinion poll carried out among 15 state CDU leaders, the RND newspaper chain has found that 12 of them are open for a coalition with the Greens. This despite the extreme electoral losses by the Greens in recent state elections.
The three CDU leaders who refused to comment were those of the Eastern states of Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg. In local elections last month in Thuringia and Brandenburg, the Greens got so few votes they were unable to be seated in state parliament (Landtag) in the September elections—and nationally the Greens are on an accelerated decline. The CDU’s willingness in the rest of the country to tie its government ambitions to a near-corpse is just another sign of its rottenness, pursuing policies against the majority of CDU voters’ anti-Green views.
