Front-runner Olaf Scholz’s path to victory has got bumpier. On September 20th he is due to be summoned for questioning by the Bundestag’s finance committee
. Building a coalition, never easy, will be harder this time because trios are harder to form than duos. And politics in Germany, as elsewhere, has become more polarised.In some places, as the campaign draws to a close, politics is getting nastier, too. Last week the eastern city of Zwickau ordered The Third Path, a far-right splinter party, to remove its posters emblazoned with “Hang the Greens” within three days.
The administrative court accepted The Third Path’s argument that the slogan was not to be taken literally, especially in the context of an election, and that the right to free speech justified keeping the posters. Zwickau is appealing against the court’s decision.Greta Thunberg, a Swedish schoolgirl and prominent climate activist, has announced that she will take part in a protest in Berlin, organised by Fridays for Future, a climate movement, on September 24th, two days before the election.
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