Saskia Esken was dismantled by Lars Klingbeil ice -cold

With The SPD proves courage. Long -serving, but sometimes also used forces such as Hubertus HeilNancy Faeser and Svenja Schulze are no longer there, but a lot of new faces. What is striking in the Personal Tableau of the Social Democrats: two levels are measured at the party leadership. Lars Klingbeil not only gets the mighty post as Federal Minister of Finance, although he had not yet noticed as an accomplished budget politician, but is also said to be a vice -chancellor. His co-boss Saskia Esken not only goes away empty-handed, but has been humiliated by his own people for weeks. Yes, the 63-year-old himself contributed a lot to her standing. But the handling of the SPD With Esken is unworthy.

Friedrich Merz left Saskia Esken left

Already in the coalition negotiations of CDU,, CSU And SPD had worked on the car like the fifth bike. The men’s team around the future Friedrich Merz If only one supporting role was intended for her, she simply left it left. Behind the scenes, the disassembly of the party leaders had long since started. It became a scapegoat for the crash of the SPD in the traffic lights. It was no longer worth working on Olaf Scholz because the Chancellor was already in the political subscription pool, that is, a use of connection for the failed head of government in the new cabinet was considered excluded. So you shot yourself on Esken. Although the SPD is known to be led by a double top.

If you mean it well with the future Vice Chancellor Klingbeil, you can say that you have acted strategically cleverly than eating. Immediately after the lost Bundestag election, he prophylactically secured the post of the SPD parliamentary group leader, which had become clear by the withdrawal of Rolf Matzenich. The signal to your own people, but also to the potential coalition partners in the Union, it was clear: I continue to state the tone in the party and faction. If you want to rule with the SPD, you can’t avoid me! If you don’t mean it so well with Klingbeil, you could also say that someone has asked what becomes himself immediately after a self -inflicted election disaster.

Esken went the uncomfortable way and landed in the dead end

Saskia Esken was caught cold. You can find that naive now, or the other way around: it may not be just about her own fate. Whether Esken can continue as a party leader is more than questionable after public dismantling. No friends had made himself in the coalition negotiations. « I promise I’m annoying », had spent it as a slogan – and redeemed this promise. For Klingbeil it was all the easier to give the pragmatic mediator in the conversations with Friedrich Merz and CSU boss Markus Söder, with which it is easier to rule. He went the comfortable way, eat the uncomfortable. A government must not only consist of comfortable politicians.