"Anne Will" to the crippling coalition: The next generation asks the system question

There they sat with Anne Will, people of the vintages 1985, 1987 and 1989. And the great thing: It was worth no speech. Nevertheless, the self-evident, with the CDU Secretary General Paul Ziemiak, Marina Weisband of the Greens and the JuSo chairman Kevin Kühnert three-fifths of the round very refreshingly denied, seemed like a challenge: to the status quo and all who have the job as party leader have had or pretend from the sofa as if. And for months off-hook while the others are working.

No, the debate about the future of the parties was not really led that evening by older men who have not yet reached the career goals in their lives. It was much too lively for that.

"The Leadership Question - Do CDU and SPD Still Know Where They Want To Go?" Anne Will Wanted to Clarify in Her 60 Minutes.

And, do you know?

"Looking", fits more likely. Between rhetorical smoke candles - content instead of personnel disputes! - and concrete strength over Grundrente and coalition issues, in Berlin as in Thuringia, everything was there. Paul Ziemiak sounded almost meek: "The party's image is not good, but it was not just bad things" in the current reign. Kevin Kühnert, on the other hand, made himself comfortable in front of the play, for which the CDU has the "performance rights with the social democrats worried" (taz). He will only comment on the government, not the CDU internals - and started: Nothing goes ahead because of the leadership Tralala of the CDU. And, hello power vacuum, why does not the Chancellor say anything to the Syria plans, to the election in Thuringia, so nothing at present?

"Now everyone can ask themselves at home: Who has a last quote from Angela #Merkel in memory and not that she is now happy to be able to be in India, but a political question?", Says @ KuehniKev at # Anne Will. pic.twitter.com/nsBLptnPLY

Any idea?

"Even such a chancellor energy escapes at some point," said one of the two journalistic guests, the ex- "Handelsblatt" chief Gabor Steingart. " It is difficult and it is necessary to replace Angela Merkel."

His colleague, the correspondent of the "Rheinische Post" Kristina Dunz, saw the whole thing structurally: That the second person in the state leaves the party leadership three years before the next election, "We have never had this situation."

Leadership question - second, was not there something in the SPD?

Already, but it almost overspeaked unnoticed. Kühnert also blotted out the SPD situation. Until Kristina Dunz smugly commented: "I am surprised that you accuse the CDU of conducting a personnel dispute", especially in the first test of weakness.

But what is the problem?

At least not the leadership debate, says Marina Weisband. Instead, it is about "visions" to develop for life in 50 years - but at the CDU, she sees only "reactions to what is already flying in our ears," she said in Ziemiak direction and ordered the same , which has something to do with the AfD success in the state elections: "You have to develop your own answers to make the answers of the AfD obsolete." But the "functionary mentality" of the "older parties" would stand in the way.

"I'm afraid that the question of distinctness becomes a question of tactics," says Marina Weisband (@Afelia) at #AnneWill about #GroKo's policy. pic.twitter.com/6Ztyu5YSca

For a moment, Paul Ziemiak sounded exactly the same - just with the ax in his hand: "I have no hope that in this GroKo visions for the coming decades are possible, so honest you have to be." Ouch.

So it does not matter with the everlasting topic Grundrente?

However, according to Steingart and Dunz, "If the Grand Coalition seriously dissects on the issue of land rent, they do not deserve better," Dunz said. The Grundrente had to serve several times - for the current GroKo dispute and for a debate on the value of the value of money: Kühnert says that nothing is left of the "Lebensleistungsrente", as the CDU once called the ground rent. Whereupon all fell into the limelight of Hubertus Heils pension plan, as if they led the coalition debate of the last nine months on the spot. Everything is so well concrete and well known. Party future on the other hand - scary strange.

By the way, was there anything new?

The information that the head of the CDU was "intellectually able" to fill her job as party leader and defense minister also content, as Kristina Dunz explained, on top of that Kramp Karrenbauer biographer. And Kühnert agreed with her. That this seems worth mentioning did not seem strange to anyone. And then there was the system question.

System as in "social system"?

Exactly. The big S question flashed twice. Gabor Steingart etched against Merz 'phrase about the "grotesque appearance" of the CDU and turned it to the pension debate: "The appearance of capitalism is also terrible for millions of people." And for those who miss the party differences, here is a moment between Kühnert and Ziemiak, when the latter explained why a CDU-left coalition was ruled out, not only in Thuringia: they finally wanted socialism, another social system - cut to Kühnert: The nods enthusiastically, "Yeah, sure!".

"Anyone who comes up with the idea to say that the #AfD would be a partner, please come to the federal party, to say that, then we decide that. And then you should ask the question: Is it right in the # CDU lifted? "Says @ Paul Ziemiak #AnneWill. pic.twitter.com/9s3Y7gsngw

Then she appeared again, the future. Strange, however, that this generation does not stand up to personnel debates. Here, the German party democracy is in a historically exciting situation: CDU, SPD, The Left's continuous struggle for the top. Could you make something out of it. Here's the prediction of Dunz: If the GroKo survives November, it stops.