The chancellor won't have it easy

Despite the disappointing results for her party the Christian Democratic German chancellor Angela Merkel has achieved her goal, the daily Delo writes: "During the worst crisis of the post-war era a political force that has rather strong reservations about state intervention in the market economy has been given the mandate. Bearing in mind the political power distribution, the situation of pragmatic Chancellor Merkel is very comfortable. The black-yellow [CDU/FDP] coalition rules the Bundesrat as well as the Bundestag now. … In fact, however, the situation is anything but easy ... for the chancellor. Once the new government is in place it will come under fire from those groups that were well-disposed toward the government during the grand coalition between Christian Democrats and Social Democrats because it had relegated its business-oriented policy to the sidelines. Moreover the Liberals, as the political representatives of trade and industry, will crank up the pressure with their demand that the promises of lower taxes and less public expenditure be fulfilled."

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