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Comment: Sigmar Gabriel in the summer hole

“To the bone slap in the face”, “Super-GAU disgraced”, “”, – stated in accordance with the Edeka-Tengelmann-Disaster on the Federal Minister for economic Affairs. You could almost have pity on him, says Sabine Kinkartz. But only almost.

He is a bully. One who stands in the first row, and not long hesitate, if something needs to be done. The elbow has to know and enforce. According to the Motto: “Let the Siggi” and then the thing is running. If Sigmar Gabriel has something in the head, then the can ends but, also, in Spite and stubbornness. Especially when you talk about the Federal Economics Minister and SPD chief and made him correct wants.

So that was probably also the case with Edeka and Kaiser-Tengelmann. Those two supermarket chains, one of which is so great that you wanted to swallow the front of the Bust standing, smaller chain, to be able to even bigger and more powerful. A Plan that intended to vote for, neither the Federal cartel office, the monopoly Commission. Not any facilities, but the relevant German competition authority and the body that advises the Federal government in matters of competition policy and competition law.

Against every good advice

The experts said so, no. Then, Sigmar Gabriel, came and said Yes. He also said more Yes, as the head of the monopoly Commission, resigned in Protest against the adopted Ministerial approval. He said still Yes, as pretty much all of him and warned, familiar with competition law and with Ministerial intervention and everything that goes with it. Why? He really thought that he was more knowledgeable than the experts? He thought that as a Minister he could sit by virtue of their office just about any concerns?

Sabine Kinkartz, correspondent in the capital Studio

A little bit it will have. But the real driving force for energy, Sigmar Gabriel, was another. At Kaiser’s-Tengelmann is it about 16,000 jobs. And the Minister, permission was tied to the condition that these remain in place. The spirits of the SPD, which was the SPD-voters, which was the unions, and thus it was good for the Chairman of the social Democrats, wants to, from the looks of it, Chancellor candidate of his party. The need to deliver in the case of the SPD, but strongly points and achievements.

In the polls, the SPD is cut off at slightly over 20 percent. Given the September 2017 upcoming election, a downright depressing value. And, for the party makes its Chairperson, be responsible. Doesn’t make it to emerge from the long shadow of the Chancellor. Angela Merkel is the Boss, Sigmar Gabriel, is her Vice, and too often, it seems, than he was in reality not even that.

Well not well done, it is meant

As the Federal Minister of the economy, Edeka and Kaiser-allowed Tengelmann merger, as he hoped, finally, a Coup to land, assertiveness and, Yes, to the power of consciousness prove. As a social Democrat, he said it with a view to the preservation of jobs is also a good idea. But as the saying goes: is not Well-made well-intentioned.

The can be given the grounds of judgment of the düsseldorf higher regional court, this can prove to the Minister of serious errors, just underline. And what Sigmar Gabriel? Under his just started summer break furiously on holiday to Amrum and announces defiantly to against the judgment procedure. So you get to know him. Perhaps it would be better, he would return to the island and his mind in the North sea to cool slightly. To find then with a clear head and without emotions, one is actually feasible and promising way out of this misery.

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