Scholz struggled to define his legacy, which points to his intention to take off in the middle, when the moment of necessity comes. Actually, they did nothing more than surrender to evidence: there is only one way of dealing from the center to the extreme right of AFD. It is therefore placed the first stone of the next German coalition, in whose prospect a dangerous secondary effect is described: it leads AFD to the role of opposition leader, which : In the next elections, corrected and increased.

According to the German media, which largely coincide at this point, the television duel ended in a draw: a zero to zero. Scholz worked safely and ease, while Merz avoided slippers. They were only allowed to have with it a pen and a notes, but Merz took off the inner pocket of the jacket with the exact appointment in which Scholz defended the majorities with AFD in parliamentary votes, thus responding to the mentions of the Moderators to which it has been the great political scandal until the moment of the electoral campaign, the motion to harden the asylum policy in which the CDU had the AFD votes.

Scholz clarified that he had referred to regional parliaments, but in no case was valid for Bundestag and defended his immigration policy, which has imposed as restrictive measures as the unilateral closure of Schengen borders, as illegal as some other MERZ proposals. “It is necessary to be very stupid,” said Scholz, to make a migratory policy jump through the air that Germany has been kneading in Brussels, when it finally begins to bear fruit.

According to a lightning survey of the public television network that broadcast the debate, ZDF, the 34% to Merz and 29% could not determine any difference between the two candidates. But analysts agree this morning when the duel ended in a draw and, therefore, Scholz is the loser. Because in view of the clear difference in the SPD surveys with respect to the union two weeks after the Bundestag elections, where CDU is firmly defended in 30% and the SPD fails to exceed 16%, Scholz would have to Having won the duel very clearly to keep some hope alive.

There is a more band debate shortly before the elections and other television clashes, in which they will also be present (The Greens) and Alice Weidel (AFD), but will be difficult in just two weeks to turn around the image he left in face to face last night: a combative Scholz and a sovereign merz.

Both denied the brittle and unbridled clichés, respectively, that their opposites try to exploit. The leader of the CDU emotionally charged the migratory issue, remembering the victims of the knife attack in Aschaffenburg, in which a two -year -old boy and a family man were killed by a 28 -year -old Afghan who should have been previously deported.

Scholz left without taking advantage of the fact that almost all German economic institutes have criticized the fiscal promises of the CDU as “doubtful” and became defensive when Merz accused him of damaging the middle class with his plans of a maximum tax rate higher. But, in economic matters, blood was not made. Surely because the two candidates are open to a flexibility of the debt brake, anchored in the German Fundamental Law, whichwith budget for all.

Scholz repeatedly praised Germany’s economic strength and had to listen to Merz that his speech had “zero point to do with economic reality.” He repeatedly accused Scholz not to perceive reality and listened to the “dirty work of Putin”, which began a war of aggression and plunged Germany into an unprecedented energy crisis. Next, Merz directed the debate towards the .

But the debate was defined, not so much by the issues discussed and the absent. Education, China and climate were not even mentioned. Both also refrained from personal attacks or thorny issues, such as Scholz’s involvement in the Cum -Ex case, they respected each other, they even praised each other from time to time, racing the way to a conversation between the two Parties from February 24.