Indeed. There's a lot of that going around, of late.
I've always had some questions and reservations about ANYONE who wanted to be president/chancellor/whatever of a country. There HAS to be some tremendous ego working there.
No surprise whatsoever about Merkel's attitude. The first of the seven deadly sins is PRIDE. She's got her share of it. Both genders have it equally but it's often, but not always, manifested differently.