Germany:Can Capitalists keep the crisis "at bay" until after elections?

[L.J.Solidarity]

Unlike in most other European countries, im Germany the crisis doesn't seem to have "reached" the general population yet. There are plans for 2 large demonstrations at Berlin and Frankfurt by left-wing organisations in March, but there seems to be no real mobilization potential outside the radical left and some people who already were unemployed before 2008. Some 400,000 jobs have been lost and many workers were put on short-time, but apparently no one really cares just yet. I think this is the result of a strategy by the capitalists and their government, who are trying to keep the recession "contained" by any means until after the federal election in September. If their strategy works, the extreme neoliberal party (FDP) is likely to win up to 20% of the vote and form a coalition with the CDU (conservatives), which will then initiate massive cutbacks in order to pay for the keynesian measures needed to keep the recession temporarily "at bay", hoping that people will forget about it in time for the next election.
Is this strategy going to work or will it fail as the economic situation becomes worse?