It has long been irrelevant who is party chairman under Scholz.
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Do you choose the CDU despite Armin Laschet? Or the SPD because of Olaf Scholz? Many citizens will make their voting decisions dependent on these questions. Olaf Scholz knows this and is now using a trick that the US Democrats have often used.
Scholz started the election campaign with all sorts of socialist folklore such as a wealth tax or a rent moratorium in order to please the left wing of the party. But in good time before the election, he is now finally turning to the center in order to tap former Merkel voters. And to get ready for an alliance with the FDP.
The interview by Olaf Scholz in the Handelsblatt sounds at times as if the SPD chancellor candidate had copied blocks of sentences from speeches by Christian Lindner. The market is “highly efficient and the basis of our prosperity”. Additional spending on climate change would have to “come mainly from the private sector”, and the state would have to create the framework for this.
Above all, however, Scholz is committed to the stability pact, the EU debt rules and the debt brake. So to everything that SPD leader Norbert Walter-Borjans describes as his party’s odyssey “into the neoliberal pampas”, but makes FDP leader Christian Lindner a condition for a coalition.
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In fact, time has passed some of these things, which is why Scholz will not be able to keep his promises. If he is serious about sticking to the EU debt rules, Italy would have to save to the point of exhaustion.
The abbreviation SPD now stands for “Scholz Party of Germany”
But time makes you forgetful. Scholz will be able to explain a change of course in the EU debt rules to the citizens after the election with the complexity of Europe. The only thing now is not to panic the voters with too much European rhetoric.
Scholz no longer has to take his party into account, he has legroom. It has long been irrelevant who is party chairman under Scholz. The abbreviation SPD now stands for “Scholz Party of Germany”.
This strategy could work. 40 percent of voters are still undecided, more than ever. Above all, Scholz must win the former Merkel voters, and he does not win them with the prospect of a left alliance. With his center pivot, on the other hand, he rolls out a red carpet in the direction of Lindner. Which makes it harder and harder not to fall into Scholz’s arms after the election.
More: These are the most important differences between Armin Laschet and Olaf Scholz.
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