Comment by Kostas Argyros

For the old parliamentarians in Germany, there were many things that had to be strange last Tuesday, at the first Budestag meeting with the composition that emerged from the election on February 23. It is not only that they should have felt more “spacious”, since the reduction of seats to 630, more than 100 fewer than last week, completely changed spatials.

Much more noticeable was the change in the… outside right beats, which suddenly almost doubled. 152 seats now belong to the far -right alternative to Germany (AfD) and their owners have made sure from the first moment to show what this entails for the coming years. Voices, provocative murmur and ironic comments along with objections and interference of procedural nature that prevent democratic dialogue and the functionality of the House.

To paradox came to add and the fact that the first one was called to wake up far -right riots were the Gregor Guji. The 77 -year -old lawyer and a 30 -year -old MP is now a historical figure of the Left (Die Linke) and as a senior president of the opening of the Synod. His own nervousness, though unusual for himself, may reflect the embarrassment of a party that has surpassed his own elections and his own expectations, but confirmed the need for an opposition focused on social issues such as housing or consequences.

Toxicity sells

On the other hand, the toxic arrogance of the far -right expresses opposition her polarization and her rhetoric And in any case it seems to be a vein in a period of rearrangements and revisions of many data so far. In the first post -election poll, the AfD rises another and reaches 23.5%, while the two parties negotiating for the formation of the next government, the Christian Union (CDU/CSU) of the probably Chancellor Friedrich Mertz and the Social Democratic (SPD).

For him Mertzthe 27% who now declares voting intention to in favor of it is one bell. It has every reason to hurry, feeling the impatience of an entire society. On the other hand, he seeks to persuade that his own government will be a government of “renewal and restart”. So he wants to name it, leaking to the press that he wants to get rid of the term “Great Coalition”, which is also badly awakening and not representative of the new situation now.

Meaning in detail

On their part the Social Democrats; Without all the Saltz, having burned in the… porridge of the previous tricolor governmentnow the yogurt is blowing. Their president Lars Kleningbail insists that they will not agree with a vast, vague terminology in the government program, which will perhaps accelerate the current procedures, but will leave unanswered questions that the two parties will find later.

This “importance in the details” and the attempt to combine two pre -election programs with substantial differences in economics, taxation, immigration, defense can eventually cause delay and not may not Merz’s original plan is done for formation government before Easter. But this is probably the smallest problem at this stage.