A Prime Minister falls seriously ill and withdraws, the SPD must hold a few Items. Sounds unspectacular, and it would also be – if not in four months parliamentary election would be, says Sabine Kinkartz.
The social Democrats have always been out of step: three lost state elections in a row, according to recent public Hype visibly troubled the top candidate and, now, the serious illness of Erwin selle ring. The resignation of the Prime Minister and the SPD land Chairman of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is for the party is a real loss – and not just human. Selle ring was popular as a father of the country and the fight would have been able to make in the far North, certainly also in the election to the Bundestag in a good mood for the SPD.
It’s not like selle ring that he leaves his office in a disorderly fashion, and even for his successor. Manuela Schwesig, it should be. The 43-year-old SPD’s Deputy chief can return to their former place of home: Once, she was social Affairs Minister under Sellering. Schwesig their residence in Schwerin with her husband and two small children. In Berlin, it has implemented, as a Federal Minister for family Affairs, almost all of its political project; the Item in the most recent German Minister-President could be a next career step.
A Chance for Schulz
The SPD Chairman and Chancellor candidate, Martin Schulz for the departure Schwesigs comes at an opportune moment, it gives him the opportunity to design the campaign team in the short term move. After two years as SPD Secretary-General, Katarina Barley made it last not so good figure. To good, a little feisty, so their critics say. Most of all, she has managed to bring the election campaign of the social Democrats in the right mood. For the four months until the Bundestag election of Barley is now the Federal Minister for family Affairs, senior citizens, women and youth.
Sabine Kinkartz, DW correspondent in the capital Studio
So the way for a new SPD Secretary General. That Schulz’s choice falls on Hubertus Heil, surprised. Salvation is not a novice. From 2005 to 2009, he was the SPD General Secretary, and gave up the Post after the SPD had lost in the General election of eleven percentage points to 23 per cent was dropped. The led coming in the Opposition – also at the time of a large coalition. Hubertus Heil is try everything, his embrasure of the time missed. His advantage: He knows the Willy-Brandt-house to the last corner. He needs no training time, you can get started right away.
The FDP is already lurking
The new SPD Secretary-General will continue to attack, will try to bring the SPD in the Offensive. A tour de force, a true Herculean task. In too short a time of healing needs to get the SPD and the much-vaunted “Schulz-train” from the siding. He must ensure that the in the to Be firmed up Alliance with the SPD election program finally and Chancellor candidate, Martin Schulz, on the Berlin stage is clearly present. Because this is the biggest mistake of the campaign team of the SPD in the last weeks and months has made: to allow Schulz sang after his surprising high-altitude flight quietly in the obscurity disappeared, and that the wave of euphoria ebbed away so quickly.
In the current surveys, the SPD disconnecting again about ten percent of the CDU and the CSU. At the same time, the FDP is ready for a re-entry into the Bundestag, and could then once again as a coalition partner for the Union – as 2009. History is repeating itself here? You really have to be black more likely to face this question.
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