{"id":8036,"date":"2025-02-22T15:39:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T15:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/on-the-ropes-olaf-scholz-keeps-punching\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T15:39:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T15:39:09","slug":"on-the-ropes-olaf-scholz-keeps-punching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/on-the-ropes-olaf-scholz-keeps-punching\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Ropes, Olaf Scholz Keeps Punching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A month ago, no one would have ever mistaken Germany\u2019s often taciturn chancellor for an aggressive political campaigner. But prowling the stage in a dark suit and open shirt with a microphone in hand, Olaf Scholz certainly looked like one on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At a nearly euphoric rally for someone trailing in the polls, Mr. Scholz spoke for 50 minutes before supporters in Dortmund, one of only two German cities where his center-left Social Democrats are projected to win the majority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He trumpeted his government\u2019s achievements, like raising the minimum wage and bridging the loss of Russian gas after the invasion in Ukraine. He told the crowd he could still win. And he took a swipe at President Trump.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf you translate what \u2018transactional\u2019 means specifically,\u201d Mr. Scholz said, alighting on a word often used to describe the American president\u2019s approach to politics, \u201cit means I only think of myself and I only do what benefits me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Nearly 2,000 Social Democrats jumped to their feet and cheered. \u201cI thought he was in good fighting form,\u201d said Elisabeth Schnieder, 69, who joined Mr. Scholz Social Democrats, or S.P.D., after she retired from her job as a senior care aide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI just wish he had shown that side earlier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Friday rally was Mr. Scholz\u2019s last of the campaign ahead of Sunday\u2019s vote. It was also possibly the last of his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Scholz, 66, has been relentlessly optimistic (some might call it unrealistic) in a race that would have seemed hopeless to anyone else. That is because he was the only one who believed he could win in 2021, when his party was stuck at 14 percent before catching up in a few short months to win. That success seems to have inured him against the realities of the polls.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the same time, Mr. Scholz has clearly relaxed in the final weeks of the campaign. Instead of standing rigidly behind his lecterns at recent televised debates, he leaned against them from the side, in a pose more befitting a 1950s-era Hollywood Cowboy movie than German politics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It does not seem to have done the job. According to opinion polls, Mr. Scholz\u2019s party is expected to come in with half the support of the conservative Christian Democrats of Friedrich Merz, and also behind the far-right Alternative for Germany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Sunday\u2019s election was scheduled seven months early because the government Mr. Scholz led collapsed in November. His tenure will likely be cut short by a sluggish economy, a shrinking export market and inane political infighting between the three parties that made up Mr. Scholz\u2019s \u201cfuture coalition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even some of Mr. Scholz\u2019s biggest supporters were not acting this week like he had a chance to win. The Social Democrats are Germany\u2019s oldest party and have long partnered with organized labor. But this week, one of Germany\u2019s biggest unions called a two-day nationwide public transit strike, ending just over a day before polls open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Behind all of his bluster, Mr. Scholz and the people around him know that he has in all likelihood lost the chancellorship. His party\u2019s best \u2014 and most likely \u2014 scenario is a grand coalition, in which the Social Democrats would play a junior partner to the conservative Christian Democrats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It may spell the end of Mr. Scholz\u2019s political career, but it would put the party in the familiar role of ensuring Germany\u2019s generous social benefits stay intact, even under a conservative-led government.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s the only way we can stop the C.D.U. from rolling back some of the progress,\u201d said Christian Ratschinski, 43, who has been both a machinist and a union member for more than two decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Scholz seemed to hint that such political coexistence was possible, in an unusually friendly debate exchange on Wednesday with Mr. Merz, the man likely to replace him as chancellor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Asked if he would consider getting on an aircraft flown by Mr. Merz, who is a private pilot and owns a twin-engine plane, Mr. Scholz grinned and nodded. \u201cI\u2019m assuming he has his pilot\u2019s license for a reason,\u201d he said<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Merz\u2019s response came quickly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cNow you\u2019ll ask me,\u201d Mr. Merz said, \u201cwhether I would take him along for a ride.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/22\/world\/europe\/germany-scholz-election.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A month ago, no one would have ever mistaken Germany\u2019s often taciturn chancellor for an aggressive political campaigner. 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