Even Angela Merkel, who had been doing her best to remain aloof from the campaign fray, has been sucked into the CDU’s miseries, which have only deepened this week
is looking like a case study in some future political strategists’ textbook on how to lose elections.Not that it has been plain sailing for the SPD. In Hamburg, Mr Scholz’s home town, an SPD member of the city-state’s government earned himself lasting ignominy by ordering six police to search the house of “ZooStPauli”, a hapless Twitter user who had called him a “dick”.
The last election produced 709 MPs, well over the legal minimum of 598, putting pressure on office space and lifting the parliament’s annual running costs to over €1bn . This time, reckons the Bertelsmann Foundation, the Bundestag could swell to over 900 members. Only China’s rubber-stamp congress is bigger. Attempts to tweak Germany’s electoral law have so far foundered on this or that party’s objections.
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