While Chancellor Olaf Scholz is discussing a new election date with the opposition parties, Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck (Greens) is apparently preparing for his own candidacy for chancellorship. A mysterious video he posted on the short messaging platform X is causing a lot of speculation.
A week after the end of the German traffic light coalition, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) will make a government statement in the Bundestag next Wednesday. If the opposition parties have their way, the government leader would have to ask for a vote of confidence, paving the way for new elections.
But Scholz wants to wait a little longer and only take this step in January. This greatly angered the AfD and the CDU/CSU. After a meeting in the Chancellery, there was strong criticism from CDU leader Friedrich Merz: “This is not behavior that does justice to the situation in the country.” They parted ways “in dissent” on Thursday.
After breaking with the liberal FDP and the Greens, Scholz no longer has a majority in parliament. The vote of confidence, which is likely to be lost, would pave the way for new elections. Until then, Scholz wants to get a number of legislative packages through the Bundestag with varying majorities.
Habeck returns to X
Meanwhile, Vice Chancellor Habeck returned to X after an absence of almost six years. “It is easy to leave these kinds of places to noisy people and populists. But making things easy on yourself cannot be the solution. Not today. Not this week. Not at this moment. That’s why I’m back on X,” said the Green politician, explaining his return, which is now “forever.”
A little later, the 55-year-old posted an eleven-minute video (see video above), which the German media is already interpreting as a hint of a possible candidacy for chancellor. Finally you see Habeck working on a text at his desk. In the background, November 8 is circled in red on the calendar – an indication that the candidacy will be announced next Friday? The answer to this question could be a chain on the Vice Chancellor’s wrist that reads “Chancellor Era”, as “Chancellor Era”. Habeck also hums ‘Time for Something to happen’ by Herbert Grönemeyer.
Habeck himself has already made his interest in the top position more than clear. At the end of September he said in the ZDF “heute journal” that there should be a very honest debate at the party congress about “who we want to be, what we have done during our years in government, what we have achieved and which people – and whether I one ben “could be the people who will lead this party forward in the years to come.”
The opportunities for the Greens are very limited
However, Habeck’s chances of actually moving to the chancellery are limited. In polls, his party is currently at only nine to eleven percent. At this point, the Greens are happy to point to the SPD’s opinion polls, which are only a few percentage points better, and they also send a candidate for chancellor into the race.
Source: Krone
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