Armin’s eight should have saved the unfortunate candidate for Chancellor Laschet in the last minute of the election campaign. Nothing came of it. And just one month after the experts were introduced, the “future team” no longer exists.
What is Armin Laschet’s “future team” actually doing? At the beginning of September, the CDU candidate for chancellor had presented eight experts with whose help, as head of government, he wants to tackle the most urgent problems. Among them were Wiebke Winter as a climate expert. Or the digitization state minister Dorothee Bär. Or Joe Chialo for innovations. But less than a week after the federal election, which was disastrous for the Union, the group is already a thing of the past. “Four weeks ago, Armin Laschet presented a competence team for the federal election, they are now as if swallowed by the earth,” the “Bild” newspaper quoted voices from parliamentary groups in the Union.
Only Silvia Breher is left
In the group that wants to start exploratory talks with possible Jamaica coalition partners at the weekend, there is only one “future team” member, Silvia Breher (family). The rest of the negotiators are mainly made up of CDU members who supported Armin Laschet in the free choice of candidate for chancellor. Including Hesse’s Prime Minister Volker Bouffier, Health Minister Jens Spahn and the parliamentary group leader Ralph Brinkhaus, who has just been confirmed for a few months.
Joe Chialo only took second place in his Berlin constituency and missed the leap into the Bundestag. Friedrich Merz, who should have acted as a man for the economy, now waddles his party with clear words: “The Union has forgotten how to work on thematic issues and has become lazy to think,” he told the Funke media group. That was of course not due to himself, he said that he had “twice applied as party chairman in order to re-orient the party more strategically in terms of content and strategy”, but failed.
“Future team” an “emergency measure”
Criticism of Laschet’s “future team” came almost immediately after he had introduced the experts. It was not so much their expertise that was called into question, but rather the timing of their presentation, which, in view of Laschet’s poor poll results, seemed to some like panic at the end of the day. The Berlin political scientist Oskar Niedermayer called it a “recognizable emergency measure”. The fact that the future experts were already forgotten immediately after the election seems to confirm this assessment in retrospect.
Sources:, DPA, AFP
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