There have been reports of major rifts in the German government coalition and opinion figures falling for 65-year-old Olaf Scholz.
More and more Germans are turning against him, says SVT’s Christoffer Wendick, who also believes that this is an attempt to change that.
– I think that Scholz’s communication strategists saw that there will be jokes about this and that it is just as well to invite to it to show that you are a human chancellor who has distance from himself.
After the picture of Scholz wearing an eyepatch was published, it didn’t take long for the Internet and social media to be filled with memes and humorous creations. See some examples in the clip above.