We Are Chancelloress! One Angie does not collapse the male bastion - but she has opened the gate

Abstract

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A strange atmosphere was in the air during the weeks before and after the election. For a long time, no election campaign had agitated people that much. This extreme polarisation certainly was not caused by the two big parties: for the one candidate was the incumbent SPD-chancellor, who in office had distinguished himself as "comrade of the bosses"; the other candidate was a christian democrat, who had almost exclusively courted economic leaders in her election campaign. So, something else must have been behind the voters' surprising return to an outmoded polarised thinking - for reality is more flexible.