Affluent, Anxious and Almost Normal: A Journey Through Merkel's Germany

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Because she was an easterner and a scientist, he expected her to be an ambassador for the East -- and for coal.
46% : "She saw where the country was going and allowed it to go there," said Roland Mittermayer, an architect who married his husband shortly after Ms. Merkel invited conservative lawmakers to pass a law permitting same-sex marriage, even though she herself voted against it.
46% : Ms. Merkel never backed same-sex marriage outright, but she allowed lawmakers to vote for it, knowing that it would go through.
43% : Mr. Winkler left the party again in 2019 after Ms. Merkel's successor as conservative leader, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, disparaged same-sex marriage.
36% : "It is a pity that you could not support opening marriage to same-sex couples," he wrote.

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