Although he no longer wants to be head of the Social Democrats, but with the SPD TV satirist Jan Böhmermann is apparently far from finished. After the announcement of the results of the membership survey, he was "no longer available as a candidate for the SPD presidency," he wrote in a letter to the SPD members published on Twitter on Twitter. The result makes him and his team affected, it says in the letter. "We are super disappointed and angry!"
Shortly before, the SPD had announced that Finance Minister Olaf Scholz and the Brandenburg Klara Geywitz had received the most votes, closely followed by North Rhine-Westphalia's former Minister of Finance Norbert Walter Borjans and the Member of Parliament Saskia Esken. The two duos now compete in a ballot against each other.
At the beginning of the week, Böhmermann had also written in a letter published on Twitter that he wanted to be nominated and elected by 50 delegates at the party congress in early December to be the candidate for the SPD presidency.
Böhmermann makes mistakes with the "Social Democracy"
Now he justified his about-turn, among other things with the low participation of the members in the questioning and thus that then also the Duo Scholz / Geywitz received the most votes. However, he called the partner of Scholz - and hardly unintentionally - as " Katja Gliwice ".
Another, apparently deliberately placed spelling error can be found in Böhmermann's conclusion: "The salvation of the German Social Democrat seems to be a much bigger challenge than we had feared."
At the end of his letter Böhmermann concludes that it is now "time for a radical change of strategy". Accordingly, he wants to switch his strategy now, so to speak, "the salvation of the German social democracy " - again a deliberately placed error - continue in the future as a "covert and subversive party guerrilla" from the "Social Democratic underground".
Whatever he means by that, Böhmermann apparently wants to work his way through the SPD even longer.