{"id":5940,"date":"2021-08-21T20:44:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T20:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=5940"},"modified":"2024-11-04T23:26:35","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T23:26:35","slug":"germanys-next-chancellor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/germanys-next-chancellor\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany&#8217;s next chancellor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The coming German Federal elections, there might be a surprise coming; here are my notes. <!--more--><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.betfair.com\/exchange\/plus\/en\/politics\/germany-federal-election-2021\/chancellor-after-2021-election-betting-1.176694234\">betfair: Chancellor after 2021 election betting<\/a> &#8211; I got there too late, no good odds<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/europe-poll-of-polls\/germany\/\">The [German] poll tracker at politico.eu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/angela-merkels-heir-armin-laschet-faces-calls-to-quit-before-election-cxfks89pp\">Angela Merkel\u2019s heir Armin Laschet faces calls to quit before election<\/a>, is this the tipping point?\u00a0 &#8211; as reported by the Times.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Olaf_Scholz\">Olaf Scholz<\/a>, of the SPD looks like the beneficiary and also is on the right of the SPD despite being the GS under Schr\u00f6der, or maybe it&#8217;s as a result; he&#8217;s also a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wolfgang_Sch%C3%A4uble\">Wolfgang\u00a0 Sch\u00e4ube<\/a>, the architect of the humiliation of Greece and the most recent guardian of Germany and the EU obeisance to QMT.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I also looked at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelocal.de\/20210819\/after-merkel-who-could-be-next-in-line-to-lead-germany\/\">this<\/a>,\u00a0 an article in thelocal.de, in English, which reports the polls and the balance of forces in Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coming German Federal elections, there might be a surprise coming; here are my notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[140],"tags":[109,141],"class_list":["post-5940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-germany","tag-politics-2"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/bundeskanzalrat-dfl-cc-bysa2019-cropped.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11672,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5940\/revisions\/11672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}