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The chancellor doesn't have much power to begin with, unlike the US-president.
It mostly depends in what way the parlaiment (Bundestag) is set together.
Currently we have a coalition between the CDU (Merkels party) and the SPD (socialist party). In order for anything to happen, both of them need to agree on it, which is easier said than done. If Merkels party had someone that was more in line with her or even the majority of the votes for her party, giving her party complete control over the parlaiment, she could easier implement laws and such.
Pretty much the one thing where the chancellor has unparalled power is the forgin policy of germany. What she says, needs to be done. Only in very extreme cases, when germany itself is at stake the parlaiment can intervene.
It might very well be that she has an agenda to follow given by someone else, but that would need to go to the tops of the SPD as well, since they all need to be on the same page to get shit done.
If any, then all of them would have to pay for what they've been doing the past three years.