Merkel’s current Democratic Party, local election’lost’ ahead of general election…”mask scandal aftermath”

Enter 2021.03.15 16:00

Two local legislatures are defeated at the same time in the election exit survey
Green Party’s’Goryeong Prime Minister’ Can’t Retake Lead
‘Mask scandal’ involved ruling party lawmakers in a row
Even morality issues amid criticism of vaccine security and diagnostic tests

German public media (DW) reported that the ruling Christian Democratic Party (CDU), led by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, appears to have virtually lost some state legislative elections held on the 14th (local time). Along with the prolonged blockade across Germany and the corona19 vaccination being delayed than originally planned, the’mask scandal’ of the ruling party’s lawmakers seems to have served as the final blow to the election defeat.

According to a survey conducted by DW on the exit of the Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate parliamentary elections conducted by DW that day, the approval rating of the Democratic Party in the southwestern Baden-Württemberg fell 4 percentage points to 23.0% from five years ago (27%). appear. The Green Party, which ranked first, was found to have acquired 31.0%. The leadership of Vinfried Crechman (72), the incumbent prime minister and elderly member of the Green Party, emerged as a major variable, but the probability of extending the term of office smoothly over the ruling party increased.

The Rhineland-Palatinate exit survey also showed that the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), to which the current Prime Minister Malo Draere belongs, gained 34.5%, ahead of the Citizens’ Party (26.5%). The CDP’s approval rating fell by 5 percentage points from the 2016 election. Earlier in these areas, in a pre-election poll, 80% of the residents said they were satisfied with the current ruling party.

DW analyzed that the politicians of the Democratic Party recently intervened in a mask procurement project ordered by the government, helping certain companies to take advantage and collecting a large amount of money behind the’mask scandal’, which had a decisive effect on the defeat of the election. While complaints about the delay in vaccination and criticism that even diagnostic tests are not being performed properly, the moral hazard of ruling party politicians became the decisive blow.

According to reports, on the 8th, Congressman Nicholas Roebel of the Democratic Party intermediated a Chinese mask supplier and a German healthcare company to be selected as a public mask supplier in his district (Baden-Württemberg). He admitted to the suspicion that he received about 338 million won). It was revealed that Georg Nüslin, an internal representative of the Christian Social Union (Kisadang CSU), who participated in the coalition regime, also participated in the mask procurement project of public institutions and collected 660,000 euros (approximately 890 million won).

The results of this exit survey are significant in that this year is a’super election year’, local media reported. Germany will hold two elections in a row, followed by elections in the state of Saxony-Anhalt in June, the general elections of the Federal House of Representatives to succeed Prime Minister Merkel in September, and the city of Berlin, Mecklenburg-Popommern and Thuringia. This is the reason why the prospect of the Democratic Party, who has been hungry in the two places that are the signals of the election, may become difficult to take power.

Daily Develt (Die Welt) said, “A dark age has come to the CDP,” and “It is not just the results of the two exit investigations, but shows the movement of public sentiment.” DW said, “This mask scandal was a huge issue in Baden-Württemberg,” and said, “The central government’s failure to secure enough vaccines and moral departures were able to properly use the Green Party for elections.” The AFP also analyzed that the results of this election were a bad thing for the next prime minister candidate and the CDP leader Armin Rachet.