The impressions on the elections in Germany are all in the pages of local newspapers, which reflect the complex reality and report different predictions for the future. In short, “it is a dilemma”, the Francofortese daily insists: “The question of whether a three-party alliance can work with the Greens, regardless of whether it will be led on the third side by Chancellor Scholz or by Chancellor Laschet.” According to Spiegel, precisely what Frankfurter Rundschau defines “amazing advances”, between Greens and liberals, which took place last night on live television with screenings in full evolution, are “the election of a power vacuum”: for the weekly the the choice of the German voters was “not to make any of the parties too big, also because none of them really convinced them. Apart from the little-loved Grosse Koalition, two other coalitions are now possible ». It is a traffic light alliance – which includes SPD, Verdi and liberals – or another between CDU / CSU, Verdi and liberals. “At least the red-red-green coalition has left the scene with its threat potential. At least this”.
On the other hand, it is the Sueddeutsche Zeitung that wants to highlight the unprecedented performance of the Social Democrats, who still a few weeks ago were not more than 15-16% in the polls and now find themselves winners, however narrow, of the elections: ” In recent weeks, the SPD has become another party. The party organism suddenly shows self-confidence again ”, while“ Olaf Scholz, however you see it, is the man of the day ”. On the other hand, again for the SZ, “Laschet is a bad loser, because he doesn’t want to admit he lost or made mistakes.” The reason, according to the Munich newspaper, is that «not governing in fact is not foreseen by the DNA of the CDU / CSU Union, even if it has lost dramatically. And so, if the Union lost its orientation during the election evening, Laschet lost another piece of sense of reality ».
Even harder, in this regard, Welt, traditionally close to the conservatives: “In reality the CDU should go to the opposition, because it is over”, comments the director of the newspaper, Ulf Poschardt, according to whom the union of Christian Democrats and of the Bavarian social-Christians “after an embarrassing campaign, a jovially unhappy candidate and a base made insecure, he must draw the consequences of his own personal and programmatic misery”. In essence, Welt cuts short: “The CDU has not actually fully arrived in the twenty-first century.”
«Dead silence in the CDU house, the SPD rejoices. Armin Laschet seems to have been beaten, Olaf Scholz can be considered the winner. But the projections are misleading about the most important thing: it will not be the one with the most votes who becomes the chancellor. But the one who will be able to put together a coalition “: says the Tagesspiegel of Berlin who, among the endless comments of the German media that came out with still hot polls, offers the extreme synthesis of what was the German election day, unpublished under many points of view.
Thus, while the Bild Zeitung emblematically exclaims “Electoral chaos in Berlin”, it is Handelsblatt who reminds us that “Angela Merkel bequeathed a totally changed political landscape”. According to the economic daily, it was an “electoral Sunday of historic dimensions”, in which however “70% of the voters did not vote for the party that will ultimately express the chancellor”. In practice, the Handelsblatt cuts short, “regardless of who ultimately wins the race for the chancellery, both Scholz and Laschet would be chancellors cut in four”, also because “the two great mass parties in the last twenty years have emptied from the point of view of content and from that of the staff ».
While the Frankfurter Rundschau states that “the winners are clearly SPD, Greens and liberals, since they have managed to improve their results significantly compared to the previous elections, while the big loser is the CDU / CSU Union with their candidate Laschet”, the Frankfurter Allgemeine leaves right from the title the theme of the “Kanzlermacher”, that is the unpublished “kingmakers” declined to the federal chancellery, Greens and liberals of the FDP, who have started the first approach to start negotiations between them on a possible government alliance, even before the initiative is taken by the large SPD or CDU / CSU: «It is they, the Greens and the liberals, the ‘Kanzlermacher’ who now depend on each other. But the important thing is what the voters have in their family album: those of the FDP are closer to the CDU / Csu, while the VEIs ended up scaring former Merkel voters who were afraid of a red-red-green adventure. , That is a hypothesis of government formed by the SPD, Verdi and Linke, the party of the radical left.
«However», insists the Faz, «the Greens will not do the liberals the favor of waiting for Scholz or Laschet without assets, minimum income and climate. The head of the Fdp Lindner will therefore perhaps have to put aside some of his ambitions: because in the end he does not want to become the leader of the group, but wants to become what Robert Habeck, co-leader of the Greens, also wants to become: finance minister ».