The new leader must build coalition in the divided country

Germany is at a crossroads and now for Friedrich Merz begins the hard work.

The objective of this election was never only the struggle of a nation to rediscover its economic mojo or reassess its asylum policy, important as they are absolutely.

It is also the ability of Germany to become the worldwide power sure that many of their allies want it to be.

While there are capitals in Europe looking for Berlin for global leadership, within Germany, priorities are often different.

Merz will now need to balance these demands along with the inevitable commitments that come with the construction of coalitions.

His promise to represent everyone comes in the midst of clear and clear divisions in Germany.

This choice has highlighted a east-west division again, decades after reunification.

The voting data so far suggest that the AFD is solidifying its domain in the ancient East Communist, while the CDU continues to prevail in much of the south and western Germany.

An Ard exit survey shows that young people from 18 to 24 years were more likely to support the party of the left Die Linke, followed by the extreme right -wing alternative Deutschland.

An irony of this campaign has been that, of the four main games, the most guaranteed so as not to obtain such attention absorbed.

The rise of AFD is a central story of this election, and contemporary German politics.

This is a government blocked party due to a policy of non -cooperation with the extreme right, known as the “Firewall”.

The AFD sections have been classified as right -wing extremists by national intelligence.

One of his most outstanding figures, Bjorn Hocke, has been Fully to use a slogan of the Nazi prohibited-to-ballast era Fur Deutschland.

According to the reports, their eyebrows have raised, since some AFD supporters have transformed the phrase into “Alice Fur Deutschland”, referring to the leader, Alice Weidel.

These people can suggest that it is a finger to an establishment that they think finds spurious excuses to stain them.

Others are concerned that it is a sign of something much more sinister.

The AFD has always become more bearish, some could even discuss reckless, in their rhetoric.

On the path of the campaign, We listen to an AFD councilor, in a row with two men of color, say: “Go back to your Heimat (homeland) if you don’t like this here.”

He did it, while we were openly filming him, then he flatly denied that he was racist.

However, a controversy flow has not prevented AFD from enjoying its best result.

In the second place, he has not surpassed expectations, but this still marks the strongest show for an extreme right party in the post -war Germany.

Already expert in social networks, he has a powerful ally in the technological billionaire Elon Musk, who has openly backed the party.

Many talk about 2025 as a turning point for Germany.

Or this is the high water mark for the extreme right, or the moment that will be remembered as the key springboard on its path to power.

It depends a lot, say the opponents of the AFD, about the centrist politicians of Germany who host and address the concerns of voters.

If they do not, the AFD will be a main position to launch political attacks against the government as the main opposition party in Germany.

The leader, Alice Weidel, has her eye in the next elections as much as this.

And the mission of the 46 years of making AFD a tastier political force seems to have been effective.

Finally, let’s not forget Olaf Scholz (even if many have already done so).

His allies say that the outgoing chancellor had to play a difficult hand; In charge of a coalition of three difficult roads, at a time of crisis, in particular with the consequences of the large -scale invasion of Ukraine of Russia.

And Scholz can be remembered better for his Zeitenwende speech; A promise, not completely delivered, to achieve a turning point in the security and defense policy.

A failure to deliver now, at home or abroad, could mean more danger to the party that occupies the political center of Germany.