For many, Wolfgang Schäuble is the symbol minister of the Merkel years, his “bad cop” negotiator against Greece, but also his shadow ally in the worst times.
But it is he who opens Pandora's box of his political heritage.
The exercise of the “right of inventory” is appropriate for a political party when its leader has held power for a long time.
Lionel Jospin forged his first candidacy for the Élysée, for the 1995 presidential election, with this concept.
His critical assessment of François Mitterrand's two seven-year terms had even prompted him to refuse to describe as "socialist" the project he defended during his second candidacy in 2002. Before having to, forced by failure, withdraw from political life.
The "inventory right" is also a delicate exercise.
On December 8, Angela Merkel will have left power a year ago, after sixteen years at the head of the government.
Like François Mitterrand with the former first secretary of the PS, the relations of the Chancellor…
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