the vote in Hesse can put him to sleep

Berlin – It could be the small and western Hesse to give the last hand to the chancellor's government coming from the East. Today, 4.38 million inhabitants of the Land of Frankfurt vote for the renewal of the Parliament based in Wiesbaden and, contrary to what happened in Bavaria two weeks ago, all games are still open. The outgoing government is a coalition between the Christian Democrats (CDU) of Chancellery Angela Merkel and the Greens, or between a party in crisis of consensus and a party that has never been so successful in the elections. The balance of power is also very different. In the 2013 elections, the Voldu Bouffier Cdu of the regional Democrats took 38.3%, while that of the Grünen stopped at 11%. Today, the CDU climbs from 26% to 28% and environmentalists from 20% to 22%. The sum of their votes does not change, but Cdu and Verdi can not rule together. First of all, because the next Landtag in Wiesbaden will be more fragmented than the one of 2013: Hesse is the only Land where the populists are not yet represented, but Alternative tonight he could get 12% of the votes, subtracting seats and a majority to black and green.

Then there is a question of protagonists: Governor Bouffier and his deputy and today challenger Tarek al-Wazir (German mother, Yemeni father) are very popular politicians and if Bouffier does not want to give up, the green nascent would tear him apart. willingly chair. To do this, he could throw himself to the left by engaging in the Social Democrats who, in Hesse as in all Germany, continue to lose votes: from 30% five years ago, the SPD is competing with the Greens for second place in the Parliament of Wiesbaden. To form an al-Wazir government, it should also open up to the liberals, who are not very enthusiastic about embracing the entire left, or even allying themselves with the socialists of Linke, estimated to 8% of the votes. In a country that is home to the main financial center of continental Europe and has been ruled by the CDU since 1999, a red-red-green coalition is seen as a smoke in the eye. The secretary general of the CDU, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, took the field to prevent her advent and give the AfD a difficult time. Whoever leaves the CDU to vote for AfD, said AKK during a meeting in Giessen, "protests for five minutes", but a coalition stands left "for five years". A low blow that aims more to discredit the extremes of the deployment than to highlight the skills of the government of the CDU. The Chancellor Chancellor's direct intervention in favor of Bouffier also gives an idea of ​​the concern with which Merkel is considering voting in Hesse – a country where even the Grand Cdu-Spd coalition is not destined to have the number to govern. After the recent rejection by Cdu deputies of his leadership candidate for the parliamentary group and the poor performance of the Bavarian allies two weeks ago, Merkel knows that a muffled sound of Bouffier in Hesse could end his duties at within the first party and then the government. .