Olaf Scholz accommodated the dissatisfied in his party and thereby gave Lars Klingbeil the opportunity to work as general secretary in the party in a motivating way.
The big and old SPD, long since written off by many, is suddenly and triumphantly back: as if it had never suffered the division of the late Schröder years, lost four federal elections in a row and spent years in the 15 percent tower. This achievement is connected in a special way with the names Olaf Scholz and Lars Klingbeil.
Olaf Scholz, a political professional through and through, has made a virtue out of his defeat in the fight for the SPD chairmanship, Lars Klingbeil offered his party an empathic-emotional point of reference in its most difficult hour, for which neither Eskens nor Borjans or Scholz were able to.
Olaf Scholz deserves a prominent position among the “People of the Year” because he is the winner of the Bundestag election and is now also the ninth Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.
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