Falling polls, lost trust: After her serious electoral defeat in Hesse, Nancy Faeser urgently needs success in federal politics. But in their field of all places, someone is now intervening: the Chancellor.
Call Nancy Faeser. You caught the Interior Minister between two appointments last Friday, her calendar was full. The coalition needs a new asylum policy, the security situation is cracking, Hamas has also called for protests against Israel in Germany. The interior ministers of the federal states are about to meet, special conference, Faeser in the middle. But maybe the stress also makes some things easier for them.
Nancy Faeser, 53, doesn’t have the time to think about whether it still makes sense with her and the office. Whether she still has the political strength, the prestige, the necessary authority after the weeks that lie behind her. She keeps going, just keeps going, voting, phone calls, meetings. “Of course I’m very disappointed with the result. But I feel relatively good,” she says. Maybe the dense program is like a railing that supports them and shows them where to go. For now.
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