Merkel’s Frugal Stance on Greece Aid No. 1 Vote-Winner, CDU Says
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s bearing as a frugal “housewife” on Greece and other troubled euro nations is a campaign vote-winner that won’t change after election day, a regional leader of her party said.
“The Swabian housewife, who doesn’t spend money without getting something in return, is seen by voters as the right leader for Germany in the crisis,” Michael Schierack, who heads Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union in the eastern state of Brandenburg, said yesterday in an interview in the capital, Potsdam. People who think Merkel will loosen aid terms to Greece and other countries after elections “are fooling themselves.”