Photo: DPAA blame game over ugly street violence that marred Germany's hosting of the G20 summit last week spilled into the national election campaign Tuesday as Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel attacked Chancellor Angela Merkel. Gabriel said that "in the election year 2017, Chancellor Angela Merkel wanted to use the G20 summit in her hometown of Hamburg to burnish her image with attractive pictures." Gabriel accused the "two-faced" CDU of "buck-passing" and added for good measure that the G20 summit was "a total failure" when it came to finding answers to "humanity's big questions", from wars and refugee flows to poverty. "This current crusade of the CDU/CSU against the SPD could poison the political culture for many years," he said. Merkel is ahead in opinion polls and seen to have good chances in her bid to win a fourth term against her SPD rival, former European parliament president Martin Schulz.

Source: The Local July 12, 2017 07:07 UTC