Germany before new elections
SPD in Bamberg calls for Pistorius to run for chancellor
Scholz or Pistorius? After the break of the traffic light coalition, the SPD is thinking more loudly about a top candidate other than the chancellor. Now an entire district association is positioning itself.
The SPD Bamberg district association is calling on Chancellor Olaf Scholz to forego another candidacy for chancellor – regardless of the Bavarian regional association’s demonstrative support for the incumbent. “With all his merits, a candidate for chancellor, Scholz, would currently be running into an unnecessary election defeat. Therefore, the SPD must now pull the brakes and create a new dynamic for the federal election campaign that is already underway with a new and extremely popular candidate for chancellor (Defense Minister Boris) Pistorius produce,” said chairman Olaf Seifert in a statement from his district association. When asked, Bavaria’s SPD state leader Ronja Endres clearly supported Scholz.
With Scholz, the SPD has “no chance” of winning the election
Scholz is not the right candidate for chancellor due to his “current desolate personal poll ratings in the areas of popularity and perception of competence and the very imminent election date”, with him the SPD has “no chance of winning the early federal election in 2025 or at least achieving a good result,” explained Seifert .
Scholz did not show any leadership
Unfortunately, Scholz has not been able to show leadership and get the population on board with his politics in the last three years, it said. On the other hand, “the currently most popular federal politician in Germany, Boris Pistorius, has a good chance” of leading the SPD to electoral success. “He is straightforward, has strong leadership and takes the population with him in his politics,” said SPD city councilor Sebastian Niedermaier.
However, the Bamberg SPD does not want the clear vote for Boris Pistorius to be seen as a reckoning with Scholz: “Olaf Scholz has achieved a lot for Germany in terms of content, for example with the minimum wage or the energy transition, but unfortunately he has not managed to communicate these successes ultimately keeping the coalition together,” said the co-chair of the SPD Bamberg Eva Jutzler.
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Source: Stern
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