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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Merz is the faction leader of Germans Conservative and Christian party CDU.

Springer is a magazine publisher known mostly for the newspaper Bild.

Ampel is the name of the current German government coalition: SPD (red), FDP (yellow) and Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (Green)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I see, thanks! "Conservative & Christian" sounds like a red flag.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

If it helps to put it into more perspective. Those conservatives or CDU somewhat recently visited republicans in the US and figured that it might be a good idea to copy how they do politics in the US to apply it in Germany. But making noise is unfortunately what works even if it's not actually correct or an issue at all.