Political differences or not: CDU, SPD and Greens are likely to feel close these days. They share a common problem: the search for new party leaders, which is individually but consistently delicate.
No, it is too early for that, there is no reason, not the right time. Are there any other questions? There are all kinds of phrases that are thrashed by parties when personnel debates emerge and are initiated, which then need to be moderated. Just don’t give the impression that you are dealing with yourself.
And so the FDP general secretary Volker Wissing described any discussions during the traffic light negotiations as premature: Of course, one must also clarify departmental issues at the end of the day, he said, but “I think it is not only premature to address them now, but also little helpful because it distracts from the content issues. ”
Apart from the fact that his party leader makes no secret of which ministry he is toying with: The situation with the Liberals is clearly regulated, at least at the top of the party – the possible coalition partners of the SPD and the Greens cannot say that about themselves at the moment. The CDU, which is likely to have the largest opposition party in the Bundestag in the future, is also fighting for its future top staff. What’s going on there?
CDU: Come on, consensus!
The timetable is set, but where are you going? On Tuesday the course was set in the Konrad-Adenauer-Haus for the reorganization of the CDU: First (and for the first time) there will be a member survey, then the recommendation of the basis for the party chairmanship will be confirmed at a federal party congress in January (You can read the exact procedure here). So much for the few reliable certainties. The open questions predominate.
First of all: who wants? Five names are in circulation, according to the current state of affairs: from five Catholic men, over 40 and from North Rhine-Westphalia. Officially, no possible aspirant has raised his hand. It should stay that way until Saturday, so the request of the CDU boss Armin Laschet, who wants to stoically struggle for his “consensual solution” by the deadline.
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Next question: in vain? It currently appears unlikely that his possible successors will agree on a consensus candidate. A duel is emerging between Friedrich Merz, 65, and Norbert Röttgen, 56, an economic and a foreign politician, the darling of the conservative base (Merz) and the self-declared man of the “modern middle” (Röttgen). And two losers in the election: Both of them lost out in the last race for party leadership. Against Laschet, who – despite a remarkable effort – probably has doubts about a consensus himself. “I don’t think it’s impossible, but I wouldn’t dare to make a forecast today,” he said after exploring the situation.
Last question, therefore: Is that going to happen with the closed CDU? Should it come down to Merz and Röttgen, there are also signs of a power struggle over the future course of the Christian Democrats – which could leave a political camp disappointed. The CDU could thus be at the beginning of a path which, according to all previous experience, could become a lengthy and exhausting process of self-discovery. It is also questionable how many CDU members will be involved in the survey. Laschet has already stated that there should be no quorum. So it could well be that with a low turnout, a minority paves the way for the modern age.
And so Laschet’s statement that the field test should remain a one-time thing is not surprising. The statute will not be changed, said the still boss.
SPD: The end of “Eskabo”, the beginning of “Klingsig”?
There it was, the new impression of the SPD: a calm party in politically turbulent times. After the announced withdrawal of Norbert Walter-Borjans as co-party leader, the Social Democrats are looking for (at least) a new chairman and must now, of all times, while their chancellor candidate is calmly trying to build a traffic light coalition, to conduct personal debates. Which should not run silently.
Because of all faction leader Rolf Mützenich, who has so far not been noticed by publicly putting Comrade inside under pressure, has done exactly that: After Walter Borjan’s retirement, he put the complete reorganization of the SPD leadership up for debate. If the co-chairwoman Saskia Esken becomes a minister in a government, she will have to give up her party position, he said on Deutschlandfunk. In the SPD, the separation of government and party posts has proven its worth. “It would be good that the party also knows what it is about,” says Mützenich – so Esken should soon explain itself.
And now? Above all, Esken is faced with a dilemma: She actually wanted to remain party leader, but is also traded for a cabinet post. Both are not possible, Mützenich indicated. The last two years in which the SPD (successfully) built on the independence between government and party offices can be cited as reliable evidence. But it’s no use: Esken will have to make a decision. If she holds on to the co-chairmanship, the cabinet post is probably gone. If she also withdraws from the “Eskabo” team, she has to rely on receiving a ministerial office – the posts in a possible traffic light coalition should only be allocated at the end of the negotiations, ie probably at the end of November.
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It is also unclear whether General Secretary Lars Klingbeil – who is traded as the favorite for Walter-Borjan’s successor – would want to form a team with Esken. He recently showed himself to be open to becoming head of the SPD, but without specifically announcing an application. “I am very honored that my name is mentioned for the role of the SPD chairman,” he told the editorial network in Germany. But he is also traded for a cabinet post. Should Esken withdraw from the party leadership, Manuela Schwesig is considered a possible successor. The Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania recently achieved a brilliant election victory. Both the citizens and the SPD supporters see Klingbeil and Schwesig in a current Civey survey on behalf of the Funke media group in terms of the replacement of the party leadership.
Who do the Germans trust in a ministerial office at the traffic lights? The “Spiegel” wanted to find out through a survey. The result could help Esken with her decision: They considered 15 percent of those questioned “in principle” suitable for a ministerial position – that put them in last place among the 23 politicians who stood to vote.
As the news agency Reuters learned from a video link of the party executive, a preliminary decision on the future party chairmanship is to be made on Monday. Co-boss Esken said she wanted to decide by then whether to run again.
Greens: What must, that must
First the content, then the staff – that is the Greens’ slogan. Even though Robert Habeck wants to become the next federal finance minister and Annalena Baerbock brings herself into play as a possible federal foreign minister with statements on foreign policy. Either way, the two Greens chairmen are considered to be seated in a traffic light cabinet, regardless of which ministerial office it could ultimately be. But this would mean that two posts in the party would have to be filled: that of the party chairman.
It is written in the party statutes, paragraph 16 (5): “Members of the federal executive committee may not (…) be members of the federal government (…).” If so, there is a transitional period of eight months to step down from one of the offices.
It was Habeck, of all people, who brought up the topic at the first session of the Bundestag: “You can say so much that being a party leader as a minister is incompatible with our party culture,” he told the Phoenix broadcaster. And did not mention that there is still further renovation work to be done. Because, that is also stipulated in the party statutes: “No more than a third of the members may be members of the federal executive board.”
Of the six-member federal executive committee of the Greens, five now sit in parliament. In addition to Baerbock and Habeck, Vice-Chairs Ricarda Lang and Jamila Schäfer and Federal Managing Director Michael Kellner have also secured a seat in the Bundestag. According to the statutes, however, only two are allowed. In short: the green party leadership must be fundamentally reorganized.
This should happen at a party congress, which is expected to take place in January. At least for the successor to Habeck and Baerbock, two names are already circulating: Ricarda Lang and Omid Nouripour, as the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” and the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” reported. The duo would also correspond to the party logic: Lang, party vice and once spokeswoman for the Green Youth, is considered the party left. Nouripour, most recently foreign policy spokesman for the Green Group, is assigned to the Realo wing.
Reconstruction or not: The power center of the Greens should continue to be with Habeck and Baerbock if the Greens belong to a federal government again after almost 17 years. But what must, must – that ultimately applies to all parties and personnel debates.
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