![]() Politicians of the opposition criticised the giant campaigning billboard as an instance of a "monstrous cult of personality", calling it " Cuban-style". According to Hermann Gröhe, the manager of the CDU election campaign, the billboard would perfectly "embody our election message". The photographic mosaic was made up of 2,150 images of the hands of CDU supporters and shows nothing but Merkel's hands forming the Raute, next to the slogan "(Put) Germany's future in good hands" ( German: Deutschlands Zukunft in guten Händen). ![]() On 2 September 2013, near the climax of the campaign for the 2013 federal election, the CDU unveiled a giant banner greeting travellers at Berlin Hauptbahnhof, which was displayed on two sides of a hotel building under construction, taking up a total space of nearly 2,400 square metres (26,000 sq ft). When used by her own party (the conservative Christian Democratic Union), the gesture is intended as a political symbol for Merkel's (presumed) unagitated leadership. ![]() In Jan Philipp Gloger's staging of The Flying Dutchman, which premiered during the 2013 Bayreuth Festival, the Merkel-Raute is used as a criticism of capitalism: During the performance, the gesture is shown as the distinctive mark of a nameless, synchronized elite of bankers and managers. Most notably, it is found with comedians impersonating her, combined with the colorful jackets she is usually seen wearing. The stereotypical gesture was originally used in order to ridicule Angela Merkel and her government. ![]() Then-British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (left) during the 34th G8 summit in 2008, with his hands similarly positioned ![]()
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