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For the fundamental question weather Sakura has the power to be the Hokage... Yes she does. Leaving aside God-like existence of the past/dead Hokage and Naruto and Sasuke, Sakura stands firmly on power and intelligence with the other Kage. To be a Hokage one does not need to have God-like skills and powers.

In comparision... She is as good as Tsunade or probably greater (if they follow with her on the same idea as Naruto and Sasuke, wherein they surpass their mentors).

I haven't read the novels and so i know not much what happened there, but i really don't care much about them.

the best feat of Sakura we have are from the war and the Gaiden and that alone puts her at Tsunade's level and certainly surpasses Kakashi (and no the out of the blue Double Sharingan Susano Kakashi does not even exist for me).

the thing is Sakura's feats are very few and each one in a way is surpassed by other Hokage.

her greatest strength feat is when she manifested the Bakugo Seal (she from then no longer had to divide her chakra, some to be sent to the seal to be conserved, and so could punch with all her strenght). she punched one of the ten tails clones and then a large section of ground. and that was it... she went on healing duty. Here in terms of strenght she probably outdid the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 6th, but that is what her jutsu is... it is all about strenght. as comparision to Naruto... she indeed outdid base Naruto, but has everyone forgotten that SM Naruto stopped the charge of rhino without being pushed back and flung it hundreds of meters in air just like that... a rhino many times bigger the ten-tails clone and clearly heavier and stronger in mass and was charging (a rhino's charge is deadly)... and that was early SM Naruto. in comparision to Tsunade... have you forgetten the Sannin deadlock from when Tsunade was introduced. Tsunade literally carried and swung the giant sword of Gamabunata in mid air. if anyone is saying that the dialouge of Hashirama, Shizune and Sakura's own fom when she first manifested the Bakugo was indication that she had surpassed Tsunade or got equal with Sasuke and Naruto from then, then please reread the manga... Shizune only says that Sakura achieved something she couldnot achieve. hashirama does mention her strenght being greater than Tsunade's, but did you forget that he died when Tsunade was young and had not invented the Bakugo or even the strenght technique. even Sakura just mentions that she no longer needs to hold back and is at her full potential... no where she says she has surpassed Tsunade. she does make the statement that she doesnt need to maintain youthful appearance like Tsunade... it just means, all the time that Tsunade cannot unleash her full power because she maintains the youthful apperance. also tsunade was known to have great raw strenght even without using the jutsu. also with that one punch caves ground and defeats many ten tails clones that everyone talks of how Sakura got super strong, but conveniently forget that in the very next chapter Kiba and the Ino-Shika-Cho combo using Choji's strenght also take down many clones at once.

Sakura's healing feats again come from the 4th war. before obtaining the Bakugo seal, she was one of the many shinobi that healed the alliance, but once she obtained the seal she shined. the only problem here was that along with Sakura using Katsuyu to heal as many as she could, she also got help from Naruto subconsciously healing everyone. Sakura was nowhere near Tsunade, it showed with Shikamaru, where Tsunade did what Sakura couldn't with a single touch. Tsunade also showed multiple healing with Katsuyu during the invasion. (i don't know the population of Konoha but i will pick a guess of some 100thousand, considering the number of Konoha shinobi and in the war and clearly the numnber of civilians far exceeded shinobi) Tsunade healed more than Sakura was doing during the war and at the same time saved them from Pein's attack that levelled the village. it was similar to how Naruto protected the alliance from ten-tails weather attack, but certainly on a less power and with Katsuyu.

as with Chakra, Sakura only surpasses Kakashi. Sakura was never had high reserves of Chakra, but it is clearly increased a great deal after training under Tsunade, but she is essentially comparing to monsters. we don't know much about Sarutobi in his prime, but if his hype is anything than he had high level chakra and the others were essentially monsters in Chakra level, even Tsunade, all because of the linage they belong too. the Senju and Uzumaki were monsters in Chakra and lifeforce because of their linage. the fact that Minato mastered Sage Mode shows that he too has great level of Chakra, not comparable to Senju or Uzumkai, but certainly really very high.

leadership of Sakura is completely unknown.

Sakura is clearly a Sannin level shinobi and worthy of being the Hokage, but apart from Kakashi and to an extent Tsunade she doesnt stand much against the other Hokage