Some federal states are like a refuge for the SPD. Here the celebration, which has turn into an previous aunt of a patchwork hyperlink within the federal authorities, nonetheless has its strengths.
In Rhineland-Palatinate or Lower Saxony, she reminds of the times when she was nonetheless a well-liked celebration and the CDU might put within the shade. However, there are not any extra examples of this. Brandenburg and Hamburg, then it will get skinny: In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the star of the state mom, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Hesse or Berlin, is the previous glory, and elsewhere the prospects are extraordinarily darkish for the SPD to have the ability to present the prime minister.
A “boring” social democrat
Why is that? You can examine it with Stephan Weil. The Prime Minister in Lower Saxony publicizes his withdrawal to deliver his former rival Olaf Lies to a superb beginning place for the state election in a superb two years. Because it was so unchallenged as a result of he was one of many “boring” social democrats, not extraordinarily left, not Woke, a father who didn’t deny his conservatism even in two red-green coalitions.
The workplace in Lower Saxony could require “common sense”, with which Weil campaigned for itself, as a result of plenty of agriculture along with many Volkswagen desires to be dominated right here. Pragmatism Weils, nonetheless, was a trademark of a uncommon social democracy that got here underneath the bikes when the celebration was in favor of Gerhard Schröder’s reforms and the previous program celebration got here to gentle once more. Since then it has been going downhill.
Had left as a result of his gravity solely within the “salary affair” round his workplace supervisor and inadmissible celebration work within the State Chancellery. This will make it simpler for him (and the SPD) to go to the center of the election interval. However, it doesn’t scale back its expertise to make the SPD seem as a silent downside solver. Lies due to this fact has one of the best prospects to proceed this period.
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