Which name would you like to see as the next Chancellor of Germany?

[Rumpel]

This thraed here now is not about guessing the result, but about your preference

 

[Rumpel]

• Total voters 10

11 might be better

 

[Rumpel]

Today will be the Election - or tomorrow in US time.

 

[The Mark]

2 out of 3 now say:

Baerbock - Greens​

That is surprising. Is her name so well known in the US already?

There's a green party in the USA that runs candidates every election but rarely gets anyone elected to office. Possibly someone agrees in part with their platform and assumed this was the same?

That's just a WAG.

 

[Rumpel]

There's a green party in the USA that runs candidates every election but rarely gets anyone elected to office.

In Germany any party gets seats in the Parliament if it has over 5 % of the vote.

 

[Rumpel]

1 out of 10 says:

Söder - CSU (Bavaria)​

 

[Rumpel]

Simply: not Scholz again!

 

[Rumpel]

Baerbock - Greens​

and Wagenknecht - Leftists​

.... have 3 votes each out of 11

 

[The flaming lib]

Other. Da Trumpsta

 

[Cordelier]

The more I see of Scholz, the more I like Mertz.

 

[Rumpel]

The more I see of Scholz, the more I like Mertz.

I suppose you mean: Merz.
Mertz with a "Teh-Zett" sounds more impressive, though.

Maybe Bismarck would have been less impressive as a mere Bismark.
The tz and the ck and the ß and the ä and ö and ü have something special about them.

 

[Rumpel]

now 4 out of 13 say: others

 

[SMTA]

Which name would you like to see as the next Chancellor of Germany?

Mickey Mouse

 

[Rumpel]

That is Friedrich Merz:

Friedrich Merz (born 11 November 1955) is a German lawyer and politician. He is the Leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) since 2022. He was a Member of the European Parliament 1989 to 1994, a member of the Bundestag from 1994 to 2009, and as the chairman of CDU/CSU parliamentary group from 2000 to 2002.

In 2018 he announced his candidacy in the CDU leadership election in December 2018.[1] He lost the election to Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. In February 2020, he announced his second candidacy for the party's 2021 leadership election.[2] He lost the race on 16 January 2021 after losing to Armin Laschet in the second round.

Friedrich Merz - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

simple.wikipedia.org

 

[Rumpel]

And what about him?

Karl-Theodor Maria Nikolaus Johann Jacob Philipp Franz Joseph Sylvester Buhl-Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg

 

[Lovebug]

Covfefe

 

[Rumpel]

Friedrich Merz is not on this list here.
And some others are also missing.

I will now name one other politician that was important for Germany - and still is - to some extent: Gregor Gysi:

Gysi was born in Berlin-Lichtenberg in East Berlin, Soviet Zone of Germany. His father was Klaus Gysi,[2] a high-ranking official in East Germany who served as the Minister of Culture from 1966 to 1973. His mother, Irene Olga Lydia Gysi (née Lessing; 1912–2007), was the sister of political activist Gottfried Lessing, who was married to British writer and Nobel laureate Doris Lessing during his exile in Southern Rhodesia. The surname "Gysi" is of Swiss-German origin.[3] He is of partial Jewish ancestry; his paternal grandmother was Jewish, as was one of his maternal great-grandfathers.[3][4] One of his maternal great-grandmothers was Russian.[3] His sister, Gabriele, is an actress who left East Germany in 1985. Today, she is chief dramaturge at the Volksbühne in Berlin.

Gregor Gysi - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[The flaming lib]

Joe “the pedo”Biden, the lying racist. If he’s over there screwing things up then he can’t be here screwing things up. Sorry freudins

 

[Rumpel]

• Total voters 13

We could do with some more votes

 

[Cordelier]

I suppose you mean: Merz.
Mertz with a "Teh-Zett" sounds more impressive, though.

Maybe Bismarck would have been less impressive as a mere Bismark.
The tz and the ck and the ß and the ä and ö and ü have something special about them.

Exactly... he just needs a little rebranding.

 

[Rumpel]

Exactly... he just needs a little rebranding.

Yes, a Mertz would appear stronger than a simple Merz!

 

[Cordelier]

Yes, a Mertz would appear stronger than a simple Merz!

Mertz... because Germany needs a Chancellor who crosses the "t". Mertz... Germany's "Mr. T".

The possibilities are endless.

 

[Rumpel]

And who would have thought that Gysi is a Swiss name, when Gregor Gysi was so typically East German?

 

[Rumpel]

And who would have thought that Wagenknecht is half Iranian?

 

[Rumpel]

And that Angela Merkel is 25 per cent Polish?