Merkel wasn't any better. She tried to be greener than the Greens. It was under her government that nuclear was decided to get phased out. Fukishima did a panic on her government, even though German nuclear plants are neither on earthquake faults nor on tsunami-prone coasts.

Her way of drifting more and more in that direction has propagated a new right wing extremest party (AfD) to come up as well. A ton of things she did wrong domestically.