A splinter party (FDP), which runs currently near 3.5 percent in the polls, has forced a weakened government of CDU/CSU to accept an obscure and semi-senile private individual to become the country's third president within two years.
The showdown with this peculiar result rings in the end of the Merkel era, maybe the only welcome side effect of the otherwise disgraceful boiler room acclamation of a champion of the SPD and the chaotic Green Party, behind closed doors and hidden from Germany's public. Germany has embarked on a dangerous path now, with a huge vacuum left for extremist parties to fill to represent conservative voters.
The showdown with this peculiar result rings in the end of the Merkel era, maybe the only welcome side effect of the otherwise disgraceful boiler room acclamation of a champion of the SPD and the chaotic Green Party, behind closed doors and hidden from Germany's public. Germany has embarked on a dangerous path now, with a huge vacuum left for extremist parties to fill to represent conservative voters.
If Mr Gauck were the civil rights advocate some try to portray him as, he would himself object to the way he was picked. He dismisses the real vote of 2 years ago in which he had lost, and finds no word to the permanent undermining of democratic values in the European Union.
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