News in drawing: who to succeed Angela Merkel?

Published on : 10/01/2021 – 11:50

After four terms and a remarkable 16 years in power, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is on the way out.

The Germans voted on Sunday, September 26 to renew their Parliament and designate the Chancellor’s successor. The suspense remains because of the results, particularly tight: the candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Olaf Scholz, came narrowly ahead of Armin Laschet of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the party of Angela Merkel.

Forming a coalition led by either the Social Democrats or the Conservative bloc could take several months. A topical fact that has chosen to illustrate Rayma Suprani, a Venezuelan cartoonist working for the daily El Universo.