
The 9,500-Vote Question: Does Chancellor Merz Still Have a Majority?
The incentives are plain: the CDU/CSU–SPD majority has no reason to risk its power by triggering a recount.

The incentives are plain: the CDU/CSU–SPD majority has no reason to risk its power by triggering a recount.

Is there any better expression to describe the mechanisms maintaining the political power of parties that have been losing votes for years?

Governing parties slump to weakest numbers since taking office.

Chancellor Merz has conceded that Germany can no longer sustain its expansive welfare state—a fiscal surrender to economic reality that other nations may soon be forced to replicate.

The chancellor navigates a delicate path between coalition demands and AfD voter appeal.
While the centre-right CDU party welcomes the move, the Social Democrats are split on the issue.

The establishment’s authoritarian power plays are eroding the already low level of public trust.

Since existing fact-checkers have failed to redirect political discourse toward the government line, new censorship laws are deemed necessary.