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Because SPD advises: looking for more contact with normal people
“The sum of the minorities is not a majority,” criticizes Lower Saxony’s president of his party. He thinks a generation change is right – with one exception.
The poor SPD result in the Bundestag election is a wake-up call for Lower Saxony’s outgoing Prime Minister Stephan Weil. “I am aware that these 16 percent are not an operating accident. The SPD has to work hard to get out of this hole,” said the head of government, who declared his resignation next Tuesday, the German Press Agency in Hanover.
“We put too much energy into internal discussions and too little in our contact with normal people,” criticized Weil. “Above all, we have to ask ourselves a lot more: What do the people we do expect from us? The sum of the minorities is not a majority.”
Target group: people who work hard and adhere to rules
The citizens’ allowance cited as an example. This was introduced with the best intent. “But we did not consider how it is important to people who work hard for little money and find that the distance to the citizens’ allowance is not really great. You can learn from this that you have to ask yourself this control question: How do planned decisions come to the people who work hard and adhere to the rules?”
Pensioners who used to work hard are expressly meant and also people who do family work. A large majority of society can gather behind this definition. “The SPD is the party of work. We would make a huge mistake if we revealed this core,” said Weil.
“It is not a pleasure to admit that”
The SPD’s new repositions in Berlin and Lower Saxony thinks are correct: “Generation change means that the middle-60-year-olds are no longer the future of the SPD. It is no pleasure to admit it, but it is the case.” Therefore, it is no wonder that the former Bundestag parliamentary group leader Rolf Mützenich and still party leader Saskia Esken wanted to contribute to a renewal-“and that also applies to me”.
When asked whether it was fair that party leader Lars Klingbeil is now a vice-chancellor, while co-boss Esken is without post, Weil said that Esken had not lost the Bundestag election alone. “We all managed to do this together and put it on it would be absurd.” However, one has to set themselves up that the party may need a longer comeback.
Pistorius as Defense Minister “indispensable”
“It is not said that the SPD will be in full bloom again in four years,” said the boss of a red-green state government. “That is why the SPD is well advised to give people a chance who still have a longer active term than people of my generation.”
Exceptions confirmed this rule, said Weil – and emphasized one: “This is Boris Pistorius. As Minister of Defense, it is the right one and indispensable.” Pistorius was under because of many years of Lower Saxony Interior Minister.
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Source: Stern
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