German Chancellor Friedrich Merz The messy road to power raises questions

The day the new leader in Germany has entered office will now be remembered for a very public failure forever.

The initial shock defeat of Friedrich Merz – in his candidacy to become Chancellor – caused hours of chaotic uncertainty.

A person who worked to design strength and purpose had instead had been sunk into political intrigue and division.

Merz may have won the second attempt but Today’s messy way to power He raises serious questions about the future government.

If he could not collect the votes among the coalition’s colleagues – at such a key moment – how would he handle it when trying to impose any controversial legislation?

It comes when Germany faces a prolonged recession, farm arguments for immigration, potentially seismic solutions to the costs of defense and increasing far -right political force.

But Merz’s allies insist that the situation can quickly be restored and reject the idea that Merz arises irreparably damaged.

“Now we are looking at the front and forward,” says Gunter Crachbaum, a veteran of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) and Germany Minister of Europe.

“So I think we will have a very, very good and also stable government,” he told the BBC.

“This is not only necessary for Germany but also for Europe.”

Berlin’s allies are eager to see an effective administration after getting out, which characterizes the latter, the collapse of the coalition government.

But now Merz is going for his planned trips to Warsaw and Paris on Wednesday in the shade of tuesday.

There is a lot of speculation about which deputies, in the secret vote, did not support the mert in the first round – and why.

Dissatisfied people betrayed for public jobs is a theory.

Did members in the center of the left Social Democrats (SPD) DECIDE that they should protest against the political compromises struck by the central party of Merz?

Or the candid Merz – and the ambitious Vice Cantzler of SPD Lars Kingbale – fights to unite his own ranks?

The numbers on both sides quickly sought to suggest that the other was guilty mainly.

Whatever MPs have done, it seems ready to risk making mertz and his ac -cylites sweat.

Alternative Deutschland (AFD) coat who sue the German internal intelligencer To rank the party as an extremistI had a seat on the ring for the whole show.

After the February election, AFD is the main opposition party and attacked the events as evidence of the main weaknesses within a coalition composed of the right -wing CDU/CSU parties in the center and the central SPD.

“It is very clear that this government … will be very, very unstable,” says Beatrix von Storch, deputy lider of the AFD group.

In addition, she sounded allegations that everything was proof that the so -called “firewall” of the non -judgment with her party would not continue.

“This has shown that this firewall should fall if you want to have a change in policy in Germany,” von Storch told the BBC.

I also watched from the gallery of Visitors to Reichstag, it was the old political rival of Mertz from the UDF, former Chancellor Angela Merkel.

He once lost herself in the fight for power, but returned later to politics -to try to realize his long -standing dream of taking on the highest work.

This cannot be the way Mertz intends to take office.

But more importantly, the show leaves its claims that it is ready to provide a solid government, significantly undermined on the first day.