Merkel needn't worry

The daily Corriere della Sera writes about the CDU's loss of votes in Germany's state elections: "Frau Merkel's official strategy - a return to political dialectics with the Christian Democrats on one side and the Social Democrats on the other - suffered a major setback yesterday. The fact is that post-war Germany's two major traditional parties - the SPD and the CDU - have lost more and more votes and are no longer in a position to achieve a majority with the help of the FDP, which forms a coalition sometimes with one and sometimes with the other. … Under pressure from the parties, which suffer under a grand coalition, Merkal has said that she wants to revert to the traditional alliance with the Liberals which governed in the times of her mentor [former chancellor] Helmut Kohl. But in reality … she may actually prefer a repeat of the government with the SPD in which she works as chancellor with a weak opposition and has been able to boost her image … as a woman of stability. In her fundamental pragmatism Merkel perhaps wasn't so worried [by the news] yesterday."

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