Who is Friedrich Merz? Flirted the previous runner in the German runner

The man tends to be the next German leader: European confidence antidote anti-crisis, say his supporters.

Friedrich Merz is a well-known facelift of his conservative party. Politically, he has never been exciting.

And yet, with the help of the right votes of Parliament to tighten the migratory rules, the man who is willing to play the tablet reveals a major taboo.

It is also a more central attitude of the Christian Democrat (CDU), under the former aspects of the Angela Merkel aspect.

Although Merz did not change the law after all, he launched a lightning launched in an electoral campaign Collapse of the Chancellor of the Government of Olaf Schoz late last year.

Before the chancellor had become famous for the chancellor, Parliament had completely left for a series of corporate companies and written as yesterday’s man.

But it is essential that this 69-year-old boy has been so long that the work that could have been in the Cusp of the Cuttuna.

It is January 23, a month until Germany has federal elections, and people gathered in one of the five-star hotels in Berlin to give a foreign policy conference.

It is not exactly electric around the Rome Hotel “Room” but it is a far crying 20 years ago when he looked at his political career.

Merz is also a licensed pilot, who made critics in 2022, to fly German Sylt to the North Sylt Island for the wedding of the Christian Lindner politician.

As he leads to the stage of the Rome Hotel, there are polite applause for the leader of Conservative Curies against Germany, as they are constantly progressing in surveys.

High, thin, suit, and glasses, Merz cuts a quiet, conventional business, as he tries to project the preparation of power.

But the journey has been a naughty to reach this point.

Merz was born in the German town of Western Brilongo in 1955 to become a major conservative and Catholic family.

Father worked as a local judge, Friedrich Merz’s wife Charlotteek today.

Merz was still into the CDU in school.

In a conversation 25 years ago with German New Typespiegel newspaper, many young people suggested by its coated CV.

Among his deception, he described races on the streets on a motorcycle, hanging with friends on a chip and playing card game Double head at the back of the class.

An referenced adolescent party ended with a group of students in the school aquarium, according to the journal Der Spiegel.

Teenagers had a large part of a teenager rabble-rouse. A former classmate remembered that the young behavior of Friedrich’s young people wanted to be more frequent “last word”.

Whether it is in the registry or disabled, those who have known him told me that they enjoy a beer and it can be fun, a few could offer an anecdote to illustrate this.

After school, he learned the law in military service and married Charlotte Gass classmates in 1981.

The couple has three children.

For a few years, he worked as a Merz lawyer, but he always had a look at politics and chose the European Parliament in 1989, at the age of 33.

“We were quite young and very fresh and let’s say Dagmar Roth-Behrendt, at the same time, became European German (SPD).

The young Merz has been serious, reliable, honest and polite.

A humorous sense of humor – the quality he feels is not so obvious now: “I assume that the wounds could harden over time.”

But did he meet in his career as a potential rector?

“I would probably say no, it’s not a way. Come on, you have to be kidding!”

However, everyone knew that he was great and Merz soon became from EU politics to the German National Parliament, Bundestag in 1994.

He rose through the rankings, as a traditionalist party and traditionally as a talent about faction.

“It’s a wonderful speaker and a deep thinker,” says Klaus-Peter Willsch, a member of the Bundestag CDU known for more than 30 years.

“A fighter,” says Willsch, who made three attempts to carry his side.

Its first two defeats, as a sign of fighting to deal with the ears in January 2018 and 2021.

But he returned to early-earnails, when his ambitions initially began, Angela Merkel lost the fighting party power.

Merkel, former East Communist and Merz, Western lawyers never saw.

Merz has a bitter autobiographical message on the CDD website, and decided to leave Parliament in 2009 that it is “a place for reflection”.

His reflection was to make a career with financial and corporate law. He became a director of the corporate law in various international companies and popularity, a million.

It would be more than a decade before returning to the parliament, and since, he wanted to rip a more centrifical doctrine of the Merkel in CDU conservatism.

The marked moment of political punishment arrived at the end of last month, when Friedrich Merz did not push the movement in the harder immigration rules, based on the remote alternatives to Deutschland (AFD).

He stressed that there was no direct partnership with AFDs, but his movement led to massive protests and twice as convicted the Merkel himself convicted him.

These are the rare public interventions of women who have been in Germany for 16 years.

Detractors say he was a gone election gambit, but the assistants will be Merz, seek people to attract the right hand.

Before you risk alienation of more moderate parts of the election, he voted in the 1990s against an invoice that collected rape wedding criminalization.

He later explained that the wedding was a crime of rape, and other issues were in the invoice of objects.

Surveys suggest that it is not particularly known among young people and women, but Klaus-Peter Willsch believes that the picture painted in the German media is unjust.

“I had several times in my component,” he told me. “Then they say that the woman come and that’s a nice guy.”

Charlotte Merz has also come to his defense, to tell Westfalenpost: “What some people write the image of my husband’s woman is not true.”

The marriage has said there was a support for each other: “We both cared for work and distributed child care was compatible with our professional duties.”

His reputation will be tested as election approaches, and speculation also focuses on whether they win a coalition.

Some observers have confided that Merz has been confident that Merz has harmed the experimental views of the AFD to Tacit, who will never govern.

Whatever criticism, a diplomat in EU said Brussels said “he was eager to wait.”

“It’s time to move forward from this German border and to launch this engine.”