“It doesn’t hurt if the opposition knows what it’s like to govern in crises.”
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Berlin It was just a little over a year ago that Jens Spahn (CDU) still had far-reaching visions. He is said to have explored whether he would not be a more suitable candidate for the chancellorship than his party colleague Armin Laschet.
For the former health minister, the vision of the Chancellery has now become the harsh reality of the opposition. Even in the weakened CDU/CSU parliamentary group, Spahn now only has the role of one of twelve vice-chairmen on the parliamentary group executive committee.
And there the 41-year-old has to reinvent himself. Instead of his specialist topics of health and finance – Spahn has been Federal Minister of Health since 2018 and Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Finance since 2015 – his spectrum is now economy, climate, energy, medium-sized companies and tourism.
As health minister, he had been counted several times because of his pandemic management. After moving to the opposition, a lot was said about him, but nothing was heard from him for months.
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