Comment from
Daniel Brössler
If there is one question that the traffic light coalition no longer poses, it is about the grace period. In the past, even if that was probably never true, there was talk of 100 days during which a new government could sort itself out. Only then should there be the first grades. Olaf Scholz and his team don’t even have 100 hours. The first preliminary decisions about whether the traffic light alliance will prove successful or not are made before the first oath of office has been taken. Before he is elected by the Bundestag, the new Chancellor has to prove that he is able to avert damage to the country. The towering fourth corona wave and the threateningly contagious omicron variant of the virus force action. Now.