How do floods in Germany affect the elections? Newspaper: The Green Party is the biggest beneficiary

The recent devastating floods that hit Germany have cast a shadow over the country's election campaign in preparation for the general elections, the British Financial Times said, stressing that with only two months left until election day, the floods that killed dozens of people in the west of the country pushed the issue of climate change to the heart of the election campaign.

Most German political parties agreed that global warming is responsible for the catastrophe that has so far left more than 183 dead and caused devastation in countries and villages in two of the most populous German states.

A dam on the Roer River was damaged on Saturday evening, as rescue workers rushed to evacuate 700 residents of the town of Wasserberg near the Dutch border, and the newspaper expected that these dramatic scenes might benefit tremendously in the interest of the Greens, who predict them to make significant gains in the September elections, even before the floods occur. .

So far, the Greens have refrained from chanting the slogan "I told you this", and party leader Robert Habeck has not visited the flood-affected areas, and told the German magazine Spiegel that only foolish politicians enter the road in such situations, adding that it is forbidden to campaign for an election on a day like This is when the extent of the devastation caused by the flood began to appear.

But the Financial Times said it was clear that the new focus on the dangers of exotic weather and their connection to the cause of global warming could be a public support for Green Party candidate for chancellor Annalena Barbock, and could also distract attention from the mistakes her campaign has made so far.

 The 40-year-old lawmaker has come under fire for inaccuracies in her autobiography, alleged plagiarism in a book she published last month, and her delay in informing parliament of the party's extra income.

Karl Rudolf Kurt, a professor of political science at the University of Duisburg-Essen, told German television he could certainly score points now with the Green Party's competence on environmental and climate issues, giving it a completely new way to mobilize voters.