
Coordinator of the Philosophical Club 'Civilizational Future of Russia' and Deputy Director of the Center 'Diplomacy of Knowledge' of the Russian State University for the Humanities Artur Bogachev said that Friedrich Merz is potentially the most unpopular chancellor of post-war Germany, noting his persistent destruction of his personal rating on the military agenda after the failure of the CDU in the elections to the Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt, where the AfD received 43.8% of the votes against 17.2% for the CDU.
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In the Saxony-Anhalt Landtag elections on September 6, the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won with 43.8% of the vote, while Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) received 17.2%. Merz previously bet on rising military spending, calling it more important than parental benefits.
Artur Bogachev, coordinator of the Philosophical Club "Civilizational Future of Russia" and deputy director of the Center for Knowledge Diplomacy at the Russian State University for the Humanities, said that Friedrich Merz is potentially the most unpopular chancellor of post-war Germany.
In the Saxony-Anhalt Landtag elections on September 6, the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won with 43.8% of the vote, while Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) received 17.2%.
MOSCOW, September 7 - RIA Novosti. Friedrich Merz is potentially the most unpopular chancellor of post-war Germany and with unprecedented persistence is destroying his personal rating on the military agenda, Arthur Bogachev, coordinator of the Philosophical Club “Civilizational Future of Russia” and deputy director of the Center for Knowledge Diplomacy of the Russian State University for the Humanities, told RIA Novosti.
On September 6, the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won the elections to the State Assembly of Saxony-Anhalt with 43.8% of the vote, and the ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) of Chancellor Friedrich Merz, which relied on increased military spending, received 17.2%.
“Friedrich Merz is potentially the most unpopular chancellor of post-war Germany. With unprecedented persistence, he is destroying his personal rating on the military agenda,” Bogachev said, commenting on the results of regional elections in Germany.
The expert noted how at the end of August Merz called military spending on the Bundeswehr and Ukraine more important than parental benefits, and an attempt to convince society of a military threat through the incident in Leipzig and explosives near the power plant in Brandenburg did not help because it sounds too far-fetched and dubious.
“But the cuts in social spending, for example, parental benefits, are very real and can be felt here and now,” Bogachev emphasized.
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