The SPD chancellor candidate already scored points in the polls before the federal election.
(Photo: imago images / Stefan Zeitz)
Berlin With a grim expression, Olaf Scholz stands in the SPD party headquarters. This election Sunday is the bitterest day in the SPD politician’s career so far. Scholz has never been seen so depressed in public. He has just learned that he surprisingly lost the runoff election for the SPD party chairmanship against Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans. On this evening of November 30, 2019, Olaf Scholz seems politically at an end.
Almost two years later, day of the federal election. Scholz is again in the Willy Brandt House in Berlin on election Sunday. This time he shines, waves and laughs at the crowd. The 1000 guests in the SPD party headquarters are euphoric and shout “Olaf, Olaf, Olaf!”.
A few minutes earlier, the bar for the SPD showed around 26 percent, in initial projections the Social Democrats are ahead of the Union, it is a head-to-head race.
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