Ekybio

Plot Twist:

We lure the murderer here, bag him up, then straight to the ICC. Sounds like a good plan to me.

Possible, but it will be close. Will have to wait for the final count to know for sure, same with BSW

Inside Perspective here:

The former government colation (SPD, Greens, FDP) did not do a good enough job in the eyes of most germans. Mostly due to sabotage from the FDP who repeatedly blocked proposals and was the main reason for the breaking of the whole coaltition in the first place…

While the artivle claims that the CDU is expected to hold of against the AfD, the situation on the ground is different. Merz has just recently broken tabu by wanting to push an immigration restriction explicitly with votes from the AfD. So fears that the CDU is willing to form a government with them are substantiated by precedent.

This woule give them a majority, but could break the CDU internally. Not all of them like the AfD and Merz is barely human to begin with, especially unpopular with women for good reasons. Even a former chancellor, Angela Merkel, stepped in to explocitly criticise Merz for that move specifically.

Likely it will be CDU + SPD or CDU + SPD + Greens.

All of this is happening while a ban of the AfD is currently underway, but with this result that idea might become compromised.

Summary: Things turned out bad as expected, but as long as a CDU + AfD coalition is avoided, we still have a slim chance to not burn down the whole country.

For those not on the know, here is some more context:

Angela Merkel was a very prominent figure in german politics, commonly known as “Mutti Merkel” (Mommy Merkel).

A lot of people do look back on her cancelor period quite fondly and her criticism of Merz collaborating with modern Nazis (AfD) does carry some weight. Merz burned a lot of political capital with his little stunt, demonstrated by one of the most popular CDU politicians turning against him.

The AfD is also not as popular here as some might think when looking from the outside in and efforts to ban them are underway, they are already classified in parts as an extremist group.

Source: I lived trough the time period when she was chancelor in Germany and know how people talked about her years later. Take it with a grain of salt, this is a more personal perspective