Tom Nuttall
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Few months ago, the coalition agreed to a quite a comprehensive set of pension, labour market, other economic reforms that now need to be approved in parliament.
And he said that not only was the government going to stick to this path, but sticking to the path was the best way to tackle the populists of left and right.
Yeah, particularly now that the CDU's fallen out of the Parliament in Mecklenburg vor Pommern, I think the pressure on Merz is only going to increase.
And the next couple of days, I think, could be crucial for his future.
There's going to be all sorts of conversations taking place within the party, including a lot of the associations in the German states, which are very important.
Power brokers, including some of the state premiers, may have something.
To say those premiers did actually back him in a letter that they all signed last week.
So you're probably not going to see some sort of dramatic putch led by one of these associations in the next few days.
But with these results, with Merz's approval ratings barely in double figures these days, with no sense that they really have some kind of strategy to reverse their fortunes, I find it quite.
Quite difficult to imagine that he and this government can just sort of carry on as if nothing has happened.
So I think we are potentially now entering quite a febrile moment in German politics.
Yeah, I think if you stand back, then you can get quite a clear indication that politics in Germany is really fragmenting, it's fraying, to a an extent it's radicalizing.
I mean, we shouldn't draw too many conclusions from elections in two of Germany's 16 states, both of which are relatively small, but nevertheless you can see some examples here as
What's happening across the country.
Essentially, it's becoming much, much more difficult for the traditional parties of the center to impose their agendas and to govern and to put together stable coalitions.
In Berlin, where De Linker is likely to form a government, their signature issue is the forced expropriation of the properties of corporate landlords, which obviously is.
Highly, highly contentious and could be extremely damaging to the reputation of the city amongst investors.
But that's what that party is pushing for, and they now claim that they have a mandate.
The AFD perhaps didn't do quite as well as it might have hoped to have done yesterday, but it's come first in a German state election for the third time.
In Saxony-Anhalt, which had an election two weeks ago, there's still every chance that the
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