This is just so pretty. We had the election. If you remember, I said three major parties declared politicians as candidates for chancellor. Not that we elect the chancellor, but parties declare they will make this candidate the one, if they win.
| Mnementh said: Our chancellor was Angela Merkel since 2005 (16 years), but she already has announced to step back after the election, so in either case we get a new chancellor. The candidates of the free biggest parties are:
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Well, let's start with Annalena Baerbock from the Greens. The Greens have two chairpersons, Baerbock is one, the other is Robert Habeck. Before the election they decided that Baerbock goes for chancellor. But now:
Now according to informations Robert Habeck will become vice chancellor if the Greens join a coalition. Not Baerbock. This points to an internal power struggle. Why did Annalena Baerbock became vulnerable? After all the Greens have a record result as never before in their history. But... in the polls they were at times even better. And the loss from the polling high is attributed to Baerbock. I am not sure if that is fair, but that is what happens.
Well, the other parties do better, right? Right?
The media is pushing rumours, that internally in CDU/CSU Markus Söder is brought up as a possible chancellor of a coalition of CDU/CSU, Greens and FDP. Not their candidate they run with in the campaign, Armin Laschet.
Markus Söder is chairman of the smaller of the sister parties, the CSU. The result for both CDU and CSU was disastrous, so Laschet is getting a lot of heat. But again, only two days after the election they already abandon their candidate.
Well, we have one candidate for chancellor left, Olaf Scholz. His party became the strongest one, they are most probable to lead the government. So they will not abandon their candidate? Well, the party isn't, but something else happened just shortly after the election: in Hamburg his home city the office of the district attorney made house searches at multiple SPD-politicians that were close to Scholz in his time as mayor of the city. The reason is a banking scandal about Cum-Ex deals, that had backing from politicians. This is pretty close to Olaf Scholz and he was connected before to this stuff. So it isn't exactly a good look.
https://www.tagesschau.de/investigativ/wdr/cum-ex-155.html
So, we get a lot of reasons to trust the politicians. 
