Friedrich Merz would not exist (opinion)

The starting point after the Bundestag election was not that bad for Friedrich Merz. First, because it is only enough for a government with the SPD for a government. Second, because not only the SPD, but also the Greens found it correct to give the state more opportunities for debts.

So free travel for the CDU boss to free himself from exactly the financial needs that his predecessor Olaf Scholz had still cost the coalition.

You don’t have to have proven political science proseminars to recognize: there are more tricky starting situations. But now Merz threatens to go off the flag in this situation. The man who wants to become a chancellor has to attribute himself that the party announced that it initially did not agree to its plans.

With announcement, Merz had ensured that the fronts hardened – by giving the Greens every reason to assume that he did not take them seriously. On Saturday, Merz said that the party would have to agree anyway, because he is now doing the politics that the Greens had always demanded before the election. And which he had always rejected.

In fact, it seemed difficult to imagine that the Greens did not agree to a debt package in the end. You have long been convinced that Germany has only such a chance of a good future, it is your long -cherished demand. The self -image of the Greens is today that of a state -supporting party. That hardly fits together with a veto in this world situation.

Yes, the Greens are plus a lot of plus and they took a long time to recognize their key role. But Friedrich Merz apparently felt too safe because of the starting point. So sure that the failure suddenly is in the room. The CDU boss left out the Greens during the conversations, ignored their information that a “friezen or die” would not be accepted, deliberately. He also provoked with the reference that the approval of the Greens should actually be “safe”. He also allowed the leading men of the sister party CSU even in the current situation to stop in the Greens.

Apparently, Merz considered a form of negotiation to leave a mailbox announcement. So he did it with the green leader Britta Haßelmann. And also said that publicly. Instead of fundamental reforms, he and the SPD presented expensive election gifts to his own clientele.

And should the Greens simply agree? This can really only believe a government intern like Friedrich Merz.

Obviously, there is no politician at work who has the necessary sensitivity or political foresight for complex negotiations. This was already evident in the election campaign in the asylum votes using the AfD. They drew the picture of a man who let himself be driven by his emotions and could not finally estimate what his announcements would end up in the end.

How should this be as a chancellor with a dozen other heads of state? Will EU policy continue to be made by mailbox in the future? Or the Chancellor’s daily form?

Anyone who sees these weeks since the election as a trial period for the Chancellery must doubt that Friedrich Merz survives them well. With oh and noise, he maneuvers the CDU and the country through the explorations. Häme is therefore not appropriate, especially no cynicism.

It is still likely that Friedrich Merz will be the new Chancellor of the Federal Republic. You almost have to hope for it, because a new election should not make anything easier. The AfD is already rubbing its hands.

Merz now has to go through a government crash course at a political light speed. And learn week after week. Anything else would be a disaster for the country.