#Article Launch Challenge#After months of fierce competition, the final results of the local elections in Germany have been released, and the political parties' spheres of influence have been reshuffled, with the AfD and the CDU-CSU emerging as the biggest winners.
A new map of local electoral politics in Germany
Divided into black, blue, red and green, the grey-black zone, which represents former Chancellor Angela Merkel's largest party, the CDU-CSU, occupies almost all of western and southern Germany, while the blue zone, which represents the AfD, includes almost all of eastern Germany.
The red and green zones are almost invisible on the entire map, which is the Social Democratic Party led by the current German Chancellor Olaf Schol, as well as the Green Party of the famous Foreign Minister Baerbock and Economy Minister Habeck.
In German politics, the Social Democrats have always been the second largest party in Germany, and they have largely alternated with the CDU-CSU. It is no accident that he has now been reduced to a small role, and the reasons for this are worth pondering for Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the ruling coalition.
It all started with the United States. There is no doubt that the United States is the world leader, and its hegemonic position brooks no challenge. The United States has always been worried about Russia's huge nuclear arsenal and missile forces, which are the only two in the world that can compete with the US military presence.
Russia is the energy lifeblood of the European Union
However, Russia is getting closer to the EU with the help of energy, and the power of the two sides has increased greatly, and the Nord Stream gas pipeline has added wings to the next level. Seeing a huge EU-Russian complex appear in front of the hegemonic United States makes the United States anxious. Without doing anything, they directly blew up the Nord Stream energy pipelines, completely blocking the industrial lifeline of the European Union and Russia's source of income.
As a result, it is conceivable that the German industry, which has lost cheap Russian natural gas, has seen a sharp rise in manufacturing costs, and the cost of living for the people has also risen sharply, making it miserable.
To add insult to injury, the United States has not only sold American natural gas to Germany and the European Union at a high price, but also introduced an industrial subsidy bill for inflation, and also has to draw wages from the bottom of the industrial kettle in Germany and even the European Union, calling on European manufacturing to relocate to the United States.
At this point, the German government is still currying favor with the United States, contributing money and weapons to help the United States fight a proxy war in Ukraine.
The interests of the electorate are above all else, and whoever deviates from the interests of the voters will abandon whom. With no choice, the people had no choice but to abandon the Greens of Belbeck and Habeck, and Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats, who were held hostage by them, also suffered.
Head of the Greens and the SPD