The new German Chancellor has succeeded on Wednesday in Angela Merkel during a historic day marked by the sobriety.
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“Monsieur le Chancellor, Dear Olaf Scholz …” It is 15 hours, Wednesday, December 8, when Angela Merkel pronounces these few words. The tone is so natural and if it should be emphasized that we believe attending a banal press. Then we are reminded of the solemnity of the moment when the one who led Germany for sixteen years concludes his brief intervention – just two minutes – by sending this injunction to his successor: “take possession of this house and work for the good of our country. “
On these words, who will remain the last of his long reign at the head of Germany, Angela Merkel leaves the desk from which she spoke hundreds of times, in this space of the first floor of the Chancellery usually Reserved for press conferences. Then Olaf Scholz gets up, hands him a bouquet of flowers, and takes place in turn behind the famous desk. “Dear Angela Merkel, dear Chancellor, I want to thank you warmly for the work you have accomplished the last sixteen years. Sixteen years we have been faced with serious crises that we sometimes have to overcome together,” says the one who , a few hours earlier, was still his finance minister and his vice-chancellor.
“Between us, there has always been a bond of trust. It’s a good thing because it shows that we live in a solid democracy.” And to conclude by this promise: “I wish this house remains faithful At the mentality, if typical of northeastern Germany, who has reigned it so far. “One way for the former mayor of Hamburg to mark his continuity, as he had done during his campaign, with the Style while sobriety of the one who was for thirty years ago by Stralsund, by the Baltic Sea.
Long Standing Ovation
From the sobriety, there will be in reality throughout this historic day that started, around 9 o’clock, when the new President of the Bundestag, the Social Democrat Bärbel Bas, said open the session whose only item on the agenda was the election of the new Chancellor.
At this moment, Angela Merkel was still officially chief of government, but already, she was only the spectator of herself. A whole symbol: She who, for thirty-one, had his place in the hemicycle, as a member of Parliament, Minister or Chancellor, attended the session from the public forums, where she was entitled to a long standing ovation to which all members took part with the exception of those of the Alternative Far Right Party for Germany (AFD).
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