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Olaf Scholz’s party is slipping away – the SPD leadership is making him fidget
The SPD is under pressure, and more and more comrades are calling for candidates to be swapped. Party leader Klingbeil stands by Olaf Scholz. But for him the debate will be a test of maturity.
Lars Klingbeil speaks into the first microphone of a TV station, then into another, another, another. The SPD invited people to a dialogue forum in Essen this Saturday. Zollverein Coal Mine. You can see the old winding tower through the window panes of the futuristic concrete building on the former mine site. Ruhrpott, heart chamber of social democracy.
The party leader is scheduled to discuss the major issue of “war and peace” with comrades and citizens here later in the afternoon. But now he has to answer the same question once, twice, three, four times: How does he feel about the debate about changing the candidate for chancellor? How does he feel about Boris Pistorius?
Source: Stern
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