‘Bitter’, that’s what the German chancellor Olaf Scholz called the election results in the ‘Länder’ Saxony and Thuringia. And bitter they were for his SPD party, for his Traffic Light coalition and the CDU. What could be the appreciation of last weekend’s results from a Christian perspective?
Bart-Jan Spruyt, CNE.news
Job Title: Opinion editor for CNE.news
Bart-Jan Spruyt (1964) is a historian (PhD Leiden, 1994) and a journalist. He worked for Reformatorisch Dagblad (1994-2002), Opinio (2006-2008) and Elsevier (2008-2012), and has been a regular contributor to other Dutch and American periodicals. He also teaches, since September 2013, at the Seminary of the Restored Reformed Church (Free University, Amsterdam). He started working for CNE in August 2024 as an opinion editor.