Communication is “incredibly bad”: Kubicki attacks Merz – and praises Scholz

After his years outside of politics, Merz obviously no longer knows “how the game works, i.e. how the system works,” said Kubicki when asked what surprised him most about the Chancellor’s performance. “Expectation management is abysmal.”

Merz’s predecessor in the Chancellery, Olaf Scholz (SPD) was very meticulousa “file eater,” Kubicki said. “He was really into the details, which you can’t always say about Friedrich Merz.” He definitely didn’t expect that from Merz, said the new FDP leader. As Chancellor, Scholz led the ultimately failed traffic light coalition made up of the SPD, the Greens and the FDP.