All right, Alexander, let's talk about some recent local elections in Germany.

Did not go well for Mertz, his party, his CDU, in an area in West Germany that is the home of Portia, right?

No, absolutely.

Yeah, they're not doing well either.

Last I read about their financial report, their profits not doing well.

So what's going on with Mertz?

So the region we're talking about is Barden-Wiltenberg, which is one of the richest regions in Germany, and it has been dominated

historically by the CDU. I think the CDU, which is, of course, Mouser's party, the Christian

Democratic Union, has held power in Baden-Weltenberg, almost uninterrupted throughout practically the entire history of the Federal Republic of Germany until fairly recently.

And over the last few, I think the previous election cycle, 2021, in 2021, the CDU fell and the Greens rose.

And the CDU in Barden-Waultenberg has been in a rather uneasy coalition with the Greens,

there have been the ruling party as a result in Baden-Viltenburg,

which is unusual, as I said, it's contrary to the tradition of the state,

which is, as has always been on the conservative side.

But it's perhaps also what you

might expect, might have expected in 2021. This is the time when Merkel's government was becoming

very unpopular, when Merkel was starting to leave the scene, when the CDU were starting to lose support. The Greens

were rising. There was even a brief time in the summer of 2021, where it was thought that

they might have become the major party, the biggest party in the Bundestag,

in which case, by the way, the Chancellor would have become Annalina Berbork, just saying.

But anyway, 2021 was a good year for the Greens, a bad year for the CDU.

So we've now had a new election in Baden-Wurttemberg, and Mertz and the CDU expected that they would regain control of the state.

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