At 3:30 p.m., kick-off time in the Bundesliga, Friedrich Merz will try to turn around a game that was as good as lost this Saturday. The CDU leader will appear at the final election campaign rally of the Brandenburg Christian Democrats on Potsdam’s Bassinplatz, so that perhaps one or two percentage points more can be achieved – and his coronation mass on Monday does not have too bland a Brandenburg aftertaste.
