Germany goes to the polls in little more than two weeks, but you’d never know it with a campaign as thrilling as a week-old weather report. Nobody doubts that Angela Merkel will get her fourth four-year term on Sept. 24. The only question is who her junior coalition partner will be: the center-left Social Democrats, the center-right Free Democrats or the Greens, who are somewhere in between.
It matters little whom Mrs. Merkel will pick. Germany is a nation pleased with itself and its three-term leader. There’s no Donald Trump, who makes “House of Cards” look soporific, no Emmanuel Macron, who promises to make La France great again.
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