No. And I have doubts that such demonstrations will occur here.
Why? As much as Chancellor Merkel has lost some respect and public support....you can't find a mass of Germans wanting to fire her. At best, they just want her to retire....move on....and some new fresh perspective leadership would arrive.
Germans mad on taxes? You can sit in a pub, and the vast majority of working-class Germans will whine about the tax rates.
Germans frustrated on migration and asylum? A majority of Germans think pieces and parts of the program aren't working and need correction. They can't seem to find the person in charge, and it simply simmers there....waiting for massive change that the Bundestag can't deliver.
Germans peeved on crime? A majority of Germans believe that there's more crime, while the statistics don't really agree with that perception. More cops coming? Well....to make the unhappy Germans happy....ten-thousand new cops are being recruited.
Germans wanting to don yellow jackets and hit the streets? I just don't see that many ready to go. If the Bundestag were going to flip a new tax onto people....it'd be different. Heck, even with the diesel car crisis.....you can't find any angry folks who'd want to demand that cities resolve the mess, but again....it's mostly because they can't find the person in charge of the diesel crisis.
I came to this odd observation of German problems back in 2016....looking at the various problems that pop up and folks want to really resolve, and you come to realize.....it's typically a problem with no names attached. It won't be something that the Chancellor can fix.....or the President....or members of the Bundestag. So it lays there, and Germans will chat about this but you can't find the guy to really fire. On rare occasions....some idiot will make comments that get Germans peeved, and that's different because you can find the comments and the guy.....so he or she gets dumped easily. This was one of the reasons why the Bundestag and Merkel seemed so happy to float over to the EU and let them vote stupid things into law....it gets the political crowd off the hook.
Maybe I'm wrong here but I have doubts that yellow jackets will appear in Germany.
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