The victory of the conservative party union in the general election of the German Federal Council has become clear, and the CEO of Friedrich Merz Christian Democratic Party (CDU) is expected to be the next prime minister of Germany. While the CDU is expected to earn about 28% of the votes in this election, interest is drawing interest in which party will form a coalition with the party.

The representative of Merz, 69, who is called the solver of the trust crisis faced by the supporters, is not actually a new figure in the CDU. Politically, he was never a stimulating figure, but he recently promised to solve the German people a stronger leadership and many countries in four years.

On the evening of the 23rd, Merz insisted that the United States was indifferent to Europe’s fate, while questioning the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and declaring that Europe should strengthen its defense power. Dragged.

Last month, the parliament also made an explosive commitment to strengthen the immigration regulations with the support of the far right. It was a passage that showed his willingness to break and gamble major taboos.

It is also a sign that it is once again clearly separated from the mid -term periodic period of former Prime Minister Angela Merkel, a rival in the CDU.

Eventually, the revision of the immigration law failed, but Merz jumped like a lightning before the election, which was held at the end of last year.

Merz, who was pushed by rival Merkel as prime minister, once served as a rich corporate lawyer and was regarded as a person who was completely retired from politics. But now he seems to be able to grab the prime minister who had been coveted for so long.

On January 23, one month before the early elections of Germany, Berlin’s five-star hotel ‘Hotel Droma’ attracted people to listen to Prime Minister Merz’s foreign policy speech. The hotel’s ‘banquet hall’ was not so hot, but it was clear from 20 years ago when his political career seemed to be over.

Merz is also a pilot license. In 2022, he was accused of heading to Silt Island in northern Germany as a private plan to attend the wedding of fellow politician Christian Lintner.

When he climbed to the stage of the hotel Droma, the audience applauded this leader of the CDU, who was steadily ahead of the poll.

Merz, who is tall and slim, wears glasses and wears a suit, is prepared for power in a calm and ordinary businessman.

But the journey until the standing was not smooth.

Merz was born in 1955 in the famous conservative Catholic family of West German Brillon. His father has been a local judge to this day, and Mrs. Charlotte, the wife of Mertz, is also a local judge. Mertz is the first to join the CDU during his youth school.

In an interview with Germany’s local Tages Spiegel, 25 years ago, he said that his childhood was much harder than an ordinary resume. He used to ride the streets on a motorcycle, hang out with his friends at the sweets, and play card games behind the classroom.

According to Taguez Spiegelji, his teenagers, who mentioned, eventually ended with some students urinate in a group of school aquariums.

There is also a doubt that Mertz was a prodigal person in his teens. In the past, he remembered that the interference of the young Merz was just trying to say “last word.”

Those who knew him in formal or unofficial statue told me that he liked beer and actually fun, but few told an anecdote that proved it.

After graduating from the army, Mertz started studying law, and in 1981, he married the law school, Charlotte Gas. The couple had three children. And for several years as a lawyer, Mertz was always interested in politics and was elected a member of the European Parliament at the age of 33 in 1989.

Dagmar Ross Beech Rent, who was elected to the European Parliament as a member of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) as a member of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), recalled, “We both were quite young and were not very excited.” .

Former lawmakers remembered that young Merz was serious, reliable, honest and polite. Even at the time, he was humorous, but “over time, several bruises have been lost, and it seems to have made him a little harder.”

But did he have been mentioned as a potential prime minister at the time?

“Maybe it was ridiculous at the time and joked.”

But everyone knew that his ambition was great, and Merz soon moved from the European Parliament to the Federal Parliament of the German National Assembly.

He is one of the more right and traditional and traditional camps in the CDU and wins in the party. Klaus-Peter Billshu, who has been known for more than 30 years, said, “He is an outstanding speech and a profound thinker.” At the same time, Mertz challenged his party three times, revealing his “fighter”.

In fact, Merz failed to be elected by the party in January 2018 and January 2021, respectively, which could be interpreted as a signal that he had difficulty capturing the hearts of the general public.

But when his ambition was first frustrated, he dates back to the early 90’s when he lost to Angela Merkel in the power struggle in the party. Merkel, a quantum chemist who was restrained from the former communist East Germany, and Merz, a confident lawyer from West Germany, could never go well.

This political breakup was more prominent at the end of January this year. Mertz depends on the vote of the AFD for Germany, the far-right party, while promoting a binding initiative for more powerful immigration regulations.

Mertz insisted that there was no direct cooperation with AFD, but this resulted in massive protests, and even for former Prime Minister Merkel’s own criticism. It was a rare example of former Prime Minister Merkel, who had been in power for 16 years.

Some criticized it as an unforgivable election trick, but supporters insisted that Merz was only trying to clever people from the extreme right.

Merz, meanwhile, had been opposed to the bill to criminalize rape between couples in the 1990s, and he had almost lived a half-hearted voters. He then explained that he thought that rape between the couple was already a crime, and that legislation looked at it as a different problem.

According to a poll, he has a low support rate, especially among young people and women. But Bilshu pointed out that the image of Merz, depicted by the German media, is unfair.

“I have met him many times in my constituency,” said Bilshu. “Afterwards, women came and said he was a good person.”

His wife, Charlotte Merz, also advocated her husband in an interview with West Palen Post, saying, “The article about my husband’s women’s view is not true.”

According to Charlotte, the two always supported each other and continued their marriage.

“We took care of each other’s careers and shared parenting in a way that could work and compatible.”

On the other hand, no matter what criticism is, an EU diplomat said Europe said, “I’m waiting for him to arrive.”

“It’s time to get out of the deadlock in Germany and start the engine.”