Mertz to sworn when Germany ends six months political impasse

The German Parliament is ready to choose a conservative Friedrich Mertz as its new chancellor.

The 69-year-old promises to revive the country’s flag economy and strengthen his voice on the world stage.

He put an end to the recent political limb of Germany after the last government collapsed.

But Mertz takes office during great uncertainty abroad and growing far -right at home.

“Our historical duty is to make this government successfully,” the CDU leader said on Monday, as he officially signed the Coalition Agreement.

Mertz’s supporters claim that what they consider to be a good government can help deal with the growing dissatisfaction of voters.

“I think we really have to prove that we are solving problems, not in a radical way, only in a very responsible, visible, detailed way,” says Mark Hellfich, a Bundestag CDU member.

But the CSU, CSU and SPD coalition has a narrow majority with 328 seats – only a dozen more than the minimum required.

In February, the federal elections CDU/CSU broke out only four points, while the coalition partner, SPD, collapsed to its worst result after the war.

Mertz has promised to tighten immigration rules, invest in the nation’s sick infrastructure and restore connections with key European partners.

He has already turned through a law to release defense and security from the strict rules for the debt of Germany – knowing that in the new parliament he will not be able to find the necessary majority for it.

“A remarkable solution,” says Claudia Major, Senior Vice President at the German Fund Marshall in Berlin.

But since the support for the ruling parties is relatively low, “Mertz will have to convince the wider public the need to spend more on defense.”

The click on the heels of Mertz during this parliament will be the extremely right alternative Für Deutschland (AFD), now the main opposition force in the Bundestag.

AFD wants to close the borders of Germany, deport migrants massively, end arms supplies to Ukraine and reopen connections with Russia to Putin.

Last week, AFD was officially classified as an extremist internal intelligence organization (BFV), again setting debate over whether the party should be banned.

AFD has now said he is suing BFV, accusing him of “abuse” in power.

And the name was publicly designated by senior figures in the administration of Donald Trump – including Vice President JD Vance.

The management of Trump’s White House will be another balancing act for Merz, an engaged Atlantic who raised his eyebrows on an election night when he announces that Europe should “achieve independence from the US.”

Nevertheless, the Mertz government will “invest a lot to maintain transatlantic relations,” says the GMF Major Major.

There is speculation that he can even “go for golf”-a reference to seek the courtship of golf-insane Trump, playing some holes in the lighthouse.

But Merz’s first trips abroad are intended to be in Paris and Warsaw, the relationship he claims to have suffered from Olaf Skolz.

“It’s high time” to improve German-Polish relations, says Lamb Pomaska, a member of the Polish Sejm Party and a member of the Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s civic platform.

“We have to invest together in the army, in defense,” says Pomak, who says that the Scholz government is “politically weak” and “It’s never easy to cooperate with a government that is just weak.”

“We did not have this feeling, which was very present in previous years that Germany was one of the leaders in the European Union.”