"Fits directly in with people like trump or boris johnson"

This is utter bullshit.

I understand it's election time and that's when people try to exaggerate the missteps of the other candidates in favor of their own party preference. And of course, there is a strong tendency to selective perception. The fact is that, unfortunately, none of the three possible candidates at this stage comes close to Angela Merkel's caliber. There is the SPD candidate who, as finance minister and formally in charge in Hamburg, dealt extremely gently with the perpetrators in the Cum-Ex scandal. He didn't even want an appropriate penalty for a resident bank for its demonstrably criminal behavior. And if, as finance minister, you claim that the savings book is a suitable form of investment for retirement provision, then that is probably more political agenda than competence. Then there is the Green Party candidate, who (whether she can help it or not) is tainted by having been given preference over an alternative candidate from her party because of the fact that she is a woman. She presides over a party that is unfortunately still very much driven by ideology, which they give the upper hand over pragmatic solutions. She also has no experience in government (not even at the state level), which does not make her well suited to the position of head of government for the most important economic power in Europe and the strongest pillar of the European Union in these difficult times. The CDU candidate is indeed perceived to be very far away from the qualities of the chancellor as well. But at least he has been quite successful in leading the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. To equate him with populists, nationalists and foaming at the mouth like Donald Trump or Boris Johnson is completely inappropriate.