Germany’s traffic-light coalition of Social Democrats, Greens, and Liberals is unable to escape crisis mode. The coalition’s top leaders, Chancellor Olaf Scholz of the Social Democrats, Vice Chancellor and economy and climate minister Robert Habeck of the Greens, and finance minister Christian Lindner of the Free Democratic Party, have been facing one mess after another. Together, the standing in the current opinion polls of the governing parties is about even with that of the opposition Christian Democrats under parliamentary leader Friedrich Merz, who is becoming more and more powerful.
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