Germany, Armin Laschet disputed: his popularity is waning

BERLIN – The road to the Chancellery is full of mud Armin Laschet, minister-president of North Rhine-Westphalia and CDU candidate for the post of Angela Merkel. The blunder of laughter captured in a video during the president’s mournful words is not enough Frank-Walter Steinmeier on the site of the floods. The imprudence with which, at the first news of the disaster, he reacted by cutting short, in a TV interview, is not enough, underlining that he did not foresee maneuvers on environmental issues with an unfortunate phrase: “You don’t change politics for a day like this” .