Merkel sends congratulations message to Tsipras, with 36 hours delay…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel needed more than 24 hours to digest the change in Greece, the win of the left-wing and the defeat of her fellow traveler in the painful path of strict austerity, conservative Antonis Samaras.  But the German Chancellor is a brave woman: she swallowed the Greek offense, she overcome her animosity of everything reminding her her DDR past, she sat down and typed a few words… the absolute minimum and necessary… She did her very best to be polite, but one thing she could not hide: her frustration.

Congratulations message as posted in the official website of German Chancellor:

Chancellor Merkel congratulates the elected Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic, Alexis Tsipras

Dear Prime Minister,

to your sworn in as Prime Minister of the Hellenic Republic, I congratulate you.  You come to the office at a difficult time in and you are facing a great responsibility.

I hope that the cooperation with you will strengthen and deepen the traditionally good and deep friendship between our peoples.

For your future work as Prime Minister, I wish you all the strength and success.

Yours sincerely

Angela Merkel
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany

Greek media report that there has been no telephone conversation between Merkel and Tsipras so far.

Nevertheless, the congratulation message is written in an tune that challenges the edge of diplomacy. It signals something like “aversion” and lots of “half-hearted”, as if it was written just to keep the level of bilateral relations at the minimum level. Not to mention the “teacher-like” advise-style.

When Germans write so extremely impersonal, no good omen is around….

Of course, anyone would wonder, she Angela Merkel was so late in sending her congratulations to new PM. She might have read this post and was carried away by Nea Dimokratias’ secret hope that Antonis Samaras would return back to Maximos Mansion.