German Election: Merkel continues to get heckled at rallies

Despite being favorite to win and become Germany’s longest serving Chancellor, the incumbent Chancellor Angela Merkel continues to get heckled by protesters at rallies in Germany before this month’s federal election, which is scheduled to be held on September 24th. Chancellor Angela Merkel was met with loud boos and calls to “get out” of Germany during her election campaign stops in the east German towns of Torgau and Finsterwalde on Wednesday. It comes just a day after she was hit with a tomato at a rally.  Merkel, who is touring Germany as part of her and her center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party’s reelection bid, is having a rough start in the eastern Germany, where the Chancellor herself grew up.  She just continues to get heckled at different rallies by supporters of Alternate for Germany (AfD) and National Democratic Party (NPD) who used whistles to make loud noises and carried banners saying, ‘Merkel must go’, ‘nation’s traitor’, ‘vote her out’, and ‘get out’.

She upset a lot of people in Germany when she suggested just weeks ago that all the decisions she made during 2015 refugee crisis was correct and she didn’t think that she would make decisions that would be starkly different given another chance. She urged voters to vote for her and her CDY Party as there are no better alternatives during this turbulent times. She also called for the people to reject a grand coalition of the left led by her biggest rival Martin Schultz as these times are not for experiments.

Despite all these protests, betting market remains confident that Merkel will be the next Chancellor. The market is pricing such outcome with 90 percent probability.