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"Iron Lady" delivers farewell speech, Merkel 'chooses' her worthy successor

Politiko 2021-09-07 17:37:18

"Iron Lady" delivers farewell speech, Merkel 'chooses' her

German Chancellor Angela Merkel today delivered her 'farewell' speech a few days after resigning from the September 26 federal election.

Merkel urged the public to vote for her party's candidate, calling her the only worthy candidate to form a government capable of leading the country's future.

"What is at stake are real economic and tax-related decisions that will determine the future of our country, the number of jobs," Merkel said, adding that Armin Laschet of her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was the only candidate capable of forming "A moderate government that will lead our country in the future."

Merkel also criticized Scholz for using the term "Guinea pigs" to describe people vaccinated against Covid-19. At a campaign rally on Saturday, the SPD candidate had urged unvaccinated people to take doses of vaccines against the virus, saying "Guinea pigs" like him had proved the vaccines were safe.

"None of us is a 'Guinean pig,' neither Olaf Scholz nor I," she added in the Bundestag.

Merkel, whose style of governing has usually involved her rising above political party squabbles, drew ridicule from other parliamentarians for her partisan intervention.

"God, what a fuss! I have been a member of the German Bundestag for more than 30 years and where should we discuss such issues if not here? It is the heart of our democracy, " Merkel said at the end of her speech.

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