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On the 14th (local time), the German ruling party coalition led by Prime Minister Angela Merkel was defeated in two state parliamentary elections in southwestern Germany, Baden-Wurttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. It is analyzed that the ruling party politicians intervened in the mask procurement project ordered by the government and received a large amount of money from the company, and the’mask scandal’ broke out.
According to Politico, a media outlet specializing in US politics, in Baden-Württemberg, current Prime Minister Vinfred Krechmann, the only German Prime Minister of the 16 provinces, is a member of the Green Party. ) The candidate for the coalition was overwhelmed by the overwhelming vote. According to the results of the exit survey, the Green Party’s vote rate was 31.5%, up 1.2 percentage points from five years ago. On the other hand, the Democratic Party fell 4 percentage points to 23.0%. In the Rhineland-Palatinate, the victory of the current Prime Minister Malo Dryer, who has been in office for eight years as a member of the Social Democratic Party, is strong.
The result of this election draws attention ahead of the election of a new prime minister who will succeed Merkel in September. Starting with this election, Germany is holding a series of elections in Saxony-Anhalt in June, and in September in the Federal House of Representatives, Berlin, Mecklenburg-Pomern, and Thuringia. In particular, congressmen elected in the federal House of Representatives elect a new prime minister. In Germany, the first party leader, who occupies the most seats in the House of Representatives, is usually elected as prime minister. Politico said, “In the midst of the spread of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19), corruption such as a mask scandal has threatened the CDP’s status as the ruling party.”
The mask scandal shook the German list earlier this month, with the election ahead. Citizen Democratic Party Congressman Nicholas Roebel admitted to the suspicion of receiving 250,000 euros (about 340 million won) as a brokerage fee for ordering Chinese-made quarantine masks, and resigned as a member of the lawmaker on the 5th. Georg Nusline, the Federal Council’s chief executive of the Knights Party, also left the Knights Party after resigning from his post on the 7th due to suspicion of brokering a public order for masks to a manufacturer and collecting 660,000 euros.
/ Reporter Kihyuk Kim [email protected]
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