Germany towards the grand coalition

Despite the undeniable personal success , that Angela Merkel has got the recent German elections , the clear defeat of the Liberal Party , who did not get a quorum to enter parliament obliges the outgoing Chancellor to review the strategies of alliances for the formation of the new government. Being an impractical solution all biased to the left, to the incompatibility of the Social Democrats with the extreme left , which has achieved a good result in regions that previously belonged to the Communist Germany , a sign of deep social problems and an inadequate policy of the government, German country you start possible solution based on that a few years earlier : the grand coalition . The negotiation does not announce , however, easy to swing, Merkel to obtain the support of the Social Democrats will have to give up the full implementation of the program that led to victory , resulting in the creation of their own discontent within the party which has just celebrated the victory . The conditions that the Social Democratic Party put on the negotiating table will either internal order and external and will require the new government to commit to spending on items that , in the election campaign of the winners, were not covered . The need felt by the Social Democrats , the legislation for the country on the issue of the minimum wage , which will stiffen the neo-liberal policies in the workplace, to be implemented by raising the tax rate , will be the first battleground between the two parties, which must reply to a different electorate . Despite the good health of the German accounts constitutes an objective fact , it is equally true that these values ​​are at the macroeconomic level and do not apply to substantial parts of the social fabric of Germany. The social economic issues , will thus provide a comparison that will only become tight , with the danger of instability on the political horizon . But the big game will be played on the conception of rigor applied to Europe , it is no mystery that the Social Democrats consider the measures imposed on the EU and southern Europe by the German Government outgoing constraints too restrictive and do not take into account the social and also of an economic nature , which have caused . This view is partly shared by the German industrialists who see the financial limits imposed on European partners a barrier to their exports. Of course the party of finance will not take kindly to any agreements in a way that loosens the heavy budgetary constraints of the states, but the price of the governability of the country rose appears with the need of a grand coalition . Moreover, the German people is a pragmatic and will put the interests of the national political skirmishes , even at the cost of some assignment in favor of the poorest European relatives .