the starting signal in Saarbrücken was just sounding, as the first couple gave up already. Simone Lange , Lord Mayor of Flensburg, and her Bautzen counterpart Alexander Ahrens do not want to become SPD chair .
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You could almost be grateful to them, so the field shrinks in the search for a new party leadership just a bit together. Seven duos and one individual competitor are now fighting for the favor of the party members at the remaining 22 regional conferences.
The premiere was lively, have watched my colleagues Christian Teevs and Veit Medick, that is for the vexing social democracy ever a value in itself. And it turned out that the man in the front row, Vice-Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and his partner Klara Geywitz did not have an easy time. He was a "true, truly social democrat," said Scholz. That was actually not known so far.
It would be in the interest of the party , if during the race still one or the other candidate would recognize his lack of opportunities (I do not think now Scholz). On Friday in Hannover is the next opportunity.
- The analysis: This is how the first SPD job interview took place in Saarbrücken
What is Johnson up to?
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Imagine that once : In the Bundestag, the Chancellor tried to get out hell by a law, Jubilant, protest howl, in the middle of their emotional speech takes the Union veteran Volker Kauder demonstratively Toni Hofreiter and Katrin Göring-Eckardt place to Angela Merkel to terminate the allegiance. "Go!", She calls after him, later to instruct her faction leader Ralph Brinkhaus to throw out two dozen other disloyal colleagues. In all the shouting makes Merkel Chancellery Minister Helge Braun on the government bench for a nap long. And above, from the presidium throne of the Bundestag, Claudia Roth calls: "Ooooordnung!"
Inconceivably. In the British Parliament, however, similar scenes can be watched live these days. Brexit drama and no end . On Wednesday evening the showdown between Boris Johnson and the parliament: No-deal-Brexit rejected, new elections rejected - the prime minister looks like the loser. But is he? Is everything going according to plan for him? My colleague Kevin Hagen explains why even the voting defeats the gamer Johnson does not have to stop and which ace Boom Boom Boris could now raushauen.
- If you can not get enough: Here's the Brexit drama as a moral portrait
Where is the FDP?
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The members of parliament of the FDP sit until Friday in the Thuringian Jena together for the exam . They want to talk about why the party in Saxony and Brandenburg did not make it into the state parliament. And how this could succeed in Thuringia. Finally, the Liberals dream of being present when a CDU-led, very large coalition drives out the left-leaning Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow from the State Chancellery.
On the edge of the exam, my colleague Severin Weiland met party and faction leader Christian Lindner for an interview . Lindner seemed anything but broken. Perched? Or fighting courage? As the FDP leader wants to lead his party in the East from the sinking, which answers he has on climate change and how he wants to fight the AfD, you can read on Thursday on SPIEGEL ONLINE.
- FDP in no man's land: The deep fall of Christian Lindner
The Chancellor gives personally
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Did you watch the Chancellor on TV on Wednesday evening? Like now, you may wonder, they have not shown up since the elections. Yes, but on ZDF, you could see them there yesterday, in prime time. "Hours of decision - Angela Merkel and the refugees," was the title of the so-called Dokudramas, which tells of that September 4, 2015, in which Merkel did not close the borders and brought the stranded in Budapest refugees to Germany.
The real protagonists of the refugee crisis in the Chancellery may have looked at the work (if any) with a mixture of merriment and outrage. As my colleague Melanie Amann has learned, the Chancellery is upset that the filmmakers and participating journalists suggest that the scenes behind the scenes of Merkel's power center are "absolutely authentic" and based on discussions with the Chancellor's closest advisory body.
Merkel herself is not very enthusiastic about the mixture of documentary film, expert interviews and film scenes. For the audience, the border between fiction and reality blurs, it is said from their environment. Finally, in the film the memory of the politicians of the refugee summer 2015 would be seamlessly linked with the fictional dialogues in the morning situation of the chancellery.
Above all the adjustment of these confidential rounds, so Amann reports, in the chancellery made trouble, because even details like the seating arrangement at the meeting table are wrong. And Merkel's office manager Beate Baumann would never offer the Chancellor a "Käffchen". Merkel always serves coffee personally , they say, and often drinks tea herself. The devil is in the detail.
- Talk therapy on TV: When Merkel kept the borders open
Loser of the day ...
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... is Thyssenkrupp. More than 200 years of company history, 31 years ago founding member of the Dax - but on the stock exchange are not counting tradition and good name, but numbers. And they were not good at the largest German steel company, within a year, the price slipped by almost 50 percent. That is why Thyssenkrupp is leaving the DAX. Now recovery in the second division is announced, it is considering the sale of the profitable elevator division. The stock temporarily gained more than five percent.
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- "Catastrophic Destruction": In the Bahamas, aid workers are gradually invading areas where hurricane "Dorian" has wreaked havoc - according to the UN, 70,000 people are in dire need of help.
- "Sharpie Gate": Donald Trump shows in the White House a map with the course of "Dorian" - which was subsequently edited with a pen. Now it is puzzled in the US: "Who manipulated the hurricane card?"
- Descent of a giant: The stock exchange has thrown Thyssenkrupp Germany's once most powerful industrial company from the Dax. The end in the leading index is for the group but only one problem among many - a story in pictures.
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I wish you a nice start to the day.
Yours, Philipp Wittrock
