German business leaders turn against Angela Merkel
Berlin’s grand coalition is looking tired and German business is getting tired of it. Seeking her fourth term in office, Chancellor Angela Merkel ran a listless campaign earlier this year and nearly three months after the election still has no government. For weeks, business leaders wrestled with the possible ramifications of a coalition of Ms. Merkel’s conservative alliance with the pro-market Free Democrats and the environmentalist Greens party – only to see those talks collapse.
As the chancellor now pursues what was always her preferred alternative of a new alliance with the Social Democrats, these businessmen are growing restive and letting it be known that things can’t go on the way they have been. “Where is the leadership regarding a modernization of Germany?” asks Martin Herrenknecht, head of the eponymous machinery firm, a global leader in heavy tunnel-boring machines. “Where is a pioneering program for our future in 2035? It’s incomprehensible how Angela Merkel as chancellor can remain mute and passive on two such decisive issues.”
Twelve years is a long time for a democratically elected leader to hold power, and it’s starting to look like Ms. Merkel is running out of steam. Even Britain’s “iron lady,” Margaret Thatcher, was able to hold onto power for only 11 years. France altered its constitution to trim the president’s term to five years after François Mitterrand’s two terms of seven years proved at least four years too long. Former Chancellor Helmut Kohl held on for 16 years under the extraordinary circumstances of the collapse of Communism and the reunification of Germany, and ultimately a campaign financing scandal tarnished his reputation.
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