Ahead of the regional elections in March, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, a conservative, is searching for the best way to combat the far right, which he has long considered a "tough rival" and probably his party's "biggest political rival." The leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has categorically rejected any cooperation between his party and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the main opposition party, although some conservative voices have raised the possibility in recent months of opening up to some form of cooperation with the far right.

Renew or die. The cabaret Berlin politician renews his repertoire with the change of government in Germany and the arrival of the conservative Friedrich Merz to the chancelleryThe German dictionary Duden defines cabaret, a Germanized word originating from French cabaret, as "minor art in the form of sketches and songs that parodic and humorously criticize the political situation or current events."

Joachim-Friedrich Martin Josef Merz – Friedrich Merz’s full name – has gone from being Angela Merkel’s political rival within the conservative party to becoming Germany’s new chancellor. Merz, 69, will govern Europe’s largest economy for the next four years in coalition with the Social Democrats, after his party won the federal elections last FebruaryAnd after he has gained enough support in the Bundestag to be elected head of government, despite the scare of the first vote, in which he did not obtain enough votes: a warning that he probably will not have a peaceful term in office.

Germany will have as chancellor Friedrich Merz, a politician with a marked aversion to everything public, to feminism and to the rights of minorities, and who has promised to restrict borders "from the first day" of his mandate. He is a multimillionaire, a braggart and a long-winded man, in line with other leaders of the global right, but always within the limits imposed by the Hegelian tradition of German liberalism and nationalism. Merz represents the CDU that is furthest from Merkel (her policy of welcoming more than a million refugees ten years ago is a milestone and a legacy that many still do not know how to deal with, neither on the right nor on the left), and also the one that has the least problems in understanding the neo-Nazis of Alternative for Germany.