The wolves are still waiting

Mrs. Merkel is injured. But it is still the last bastion in the CDU center. Nor can she convey social compromises.

The social climate is tense. The stock market prices are not on the doldrums, they are lolling to themselves. The SPD is obedient as a well-behaved dog. The migration theme no longer dominates the headlines. The coalition struggles with the housing shortage. Capital owners should not be scared. The auto industry is unruly but ready for low concessions in the emission control. She also has an energetic defense attorney in the Transport Minister who does not want to accept downgrading through hardware upgrades. The miniloers got a miner increase. In employment relationships, temporary contracts are still common. The low pay sector continues to be the largest in Europe: it does not happen, it does not go back.

Impatiently, the hardliners in the CDU and CSU are scraping their feet. They do not want to wait until the next regular general election. The election of the new group leader is the beginning of the Fronde against Merkel. With the FDP, a tightening of the neo-liberal course will easily take place, the FDP wants nothing better than that. And the Greens have left all left-wing positions behind and are now waiting for their respective government offices.

Schäuble now recognizes his chance, he knows that as finance minister he has proven that he can pursue the neoliberal agenda with determination, and when the roads are dilapidated, the bridges are dilapidated and the waterway locks are ancient, the main thing is that the corporations are exempt from taxes and your return is right. The leading articles in the mainstream media are already cheering him up and serving him as chancellor.

But the mood has not changed yet, Ms. Merkel will hold out for a while, even if the persecutors are hanging on their lips. A harmonious handover, however, as requested by Ms. Merkel and the majority of the population, to Ms. Kramp-Karrenbauer, for example, is hardly conceivable.