All right, Alexander, let's talk about Mertz, Chancellor Mertz, who made it on the second round of voting.

The reports that we're getting are that the CDU managed to make some deals with Delinque, not so much with the Greens.

And that's what got Mertz 325 votes. So he could finally become

Chancellor. Very embarrassing event for Mertz. So now he's trying to position himself as the

tough guy, given that he was completely embarrassed and weakened during the vote for chancellor. He's talking

about the United States, the United States staying out of Germany and to stop meddling in

Germany. I imagine he's going to start talking tough against Russia. He's going to make trips to

visit Macron to meet with Poland

and position himself as the strong chancellor who's going to bring Germany back. I believe that

is the phrase that he uses, Germany is back or Germany is going to come back or something like that.

That's what Merck is talking about.

That's what he's aiming for.

Your thoughts on?

I think he's living and borrowed time.

I think that the more the Germans see him, and this now extends to the German people and to the German political class,

the more unimpressive he looks. Now, he didn't do well in the German election, he got just over

28% of the vote. Now, Angela Merkel in the various elections that she held had.

And by the way, it's important to say that overall, very gradually,

CDU support slipped under Merkel, not always and not consistently,

but nonetheless, the worst result she ever got, I believe, was about 32%. 32.5%. So Meertz has significantly underperformed

compared to the kind of votes that the CDUCSU used to get, which were classically over 40%.

28.5%, or 28.13%, whatever it was, is very, very poor. The German people did not

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