In Germany, the post-Merkel vote: the fear of great uncertainty

BERLIN – It will be a new Germany, almost an orphan, with fewer certainties and more challenges still to be assessed: the future of the Federal Republic that sixty million voters are called to choose today cannot be in the sign of continuity. Picking up the legacy of Angela Merkel will not be easy for chancellery aspirants, for her party mate Armin Laschet as well as for the Social Democrat Olaf Scholz.