Bundestag: Scholz leaves the SPD chief standing – and finds it “embarrassing” | EUROtoday

Irritating scene with Olaf Scholz within the Bundestag: After the vote on the vote of confidence, the Chancellor talks to SPD parliamentary group chief Rolf Mützenich and shakes his hand. SPD chief Saskia Esken arrives, Scholz seems to be at her briefly – after which turns away with out remark and leaves Esken standing. Esken spreads her fingers out questioningly – as if she wished to say: What was that each one about?

A brief video of the scene, which sparked debate on-line within the night, instantly introduced the Chancellor into motion. «Saskia and I watched the video. Embarrassing of me – fortunately we have been each capable of snort about it…” Scholz wrote on X a few photograph that reveals him with Esken.

Those too SPD reacted – and tried a joke: Under a photograph that reveals Scholz with an eye fixed patch after an accident, the social gathering government wrote on X: “Maybe the other eye got something at the time too…”.

The political competitors reacted maliciously. The former CDU normal secretary Paul Ziemiak wrote down X: “Here, Saskia Esken, as chairwoman of the SPD, personally experiences what “respect for you” means for Chancellor Scholz.” The CDU has its personal experiences with movies that put candidates for chancellor in a foul gentle: after Armin Laschet made an inappropriate snort within the flood space within the Ahr Valley, the temper of voters shifted in favor of Scholz in 2021.

Already within the debate Bundestag Scholz, whose site visitors gentle authorities had collapsed weeks in the past, needed to hearken to robust criticism. Opposition chief Friedrich Merz (CDU) attacked the Chancellor personally and accused him of leaving the nation in one of many largest financial crises in post-war historical past and of failing on the EU stage. CSU regional group chief Alexander Dobrindt referred to as it grotesque that Scholz is standing for re-election: Anyone who can not maintain a coalition collectively can not maintain the nation collectively both.

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