Kommentar: Die unregierbare Republik
Mit Merz ist der zweite Kanzler in kurzer Zeit de facto gescheitert. Deutschland droht unregierbar zu werden. Das liegt aber nicht am Volk – sondern der Politik selbst.
In the past decade, Italy has seen five different prime ministers, France seven, and the United Kingdom four since 2022. Germans could only smile mildly at such instability for so long. Between 1982 and 2021, there were precisely three German chancellors: Helmut Kohl, Gerhard Schröder, and Angela Merkel. The Federal Republic had been the beacon of political stability for decades.
The corporatist-organized German state managed upheavals and crises with an internationally admired ability to achieve broad societal consensus. This political stability was economically guaranteed for top creditworthiness, making Germany the stability anchor of Europe in foreign policy and insulating it from populism internally.
However, this political stability is a thing of the past. After Olaf Scholz had to step down after three years, his successor Friedrich Merz has already failed after one and a half years.
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