Olaf Scholz, Germany's silent chancellor
It has been a long time since a chancellor was as unpopular with the public as Olaf Scholz. Observers put this down to his style of communication. Chancellor Olaf Scholz showed his face at a demonstration against right-wing extremism "Look, there's our chancellor, Olaf Scholz," a woman says excitedly, pushing two boys about 10 years old past the press photographers to the front. "The little bald guy?" one of the boys asks, peering over the black barrier tape at two men and a woman standing a few meters away beside a farm vehicle, talking about the fully automated strawberry harvest. Cordoned-off walkways provided a wide berth for the chancellor at this year's Green Week, a big agriculture fair in Berlin. There was also something symbolic about the physical distance. For weeks, if not months, many citizens have had the feeling that their chancellor is not quite there, that his presence is barely felt. Since December 2021, Scholz has led a three-party gover...