It’s going terribly bad for Angela Merkel and it’s not sure whether the news having been brought last week by GM-boss Henderson in a personal call to Chancellor Merkel will really make the change back to better polls for the Conservatives…

Latest polls say: Conservatives significantly loose ground. Social democrats do not win remarkably. Liberals slightly up. Greens stable. Socialists win massively.

This means: There is no longer a clear majority for a conservative / liberal coalition. But not yet a clear majority for red-red-green.

A perfect dilemma creating new possible constellations and initiating re-positionings: Interesting enough it’s been the Greens realizing that with the change of polls new opportunities may arize at the horizon.

Since a coalition with the Socialdemocrats is definitely out of question and the Greens never felt (and in fact cannot feel) comfortable with becoming junior partner in a coalition formed by Socialdemocrats, Socialists and Greens (red-red-green). The new objective they are aiming at is the so-called “Jamaica Coalition”: Black (Conservatives), Yellow (Liberals), Green (Greens).

And, look, one more time it turns out that Angela Merkel is well prepared. It was actually her giving the Conservatives in Hamburg green light for the very first coalition between Conservatives and Greens on state level after the last elections. A pilot project that now could become the historic milestone for the Conservatives to free themselves from again being forced into a grand coalition.

And, surprisingly enough, it seems that a majority of Germans could accept this model – a development of public opinion which, a year ago, nobody would have thought possible.