Today we are dealing with a supposedly non-happening showdown in the CDU. We ask us if Robert Habeck will stop the diabolical Martin Schulz result. And take a look at the future of German men's clubs.
Friedrich Merz does not want a showdown - presumably
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Merz, Kramp-Karrenbauer (November 2018)
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If you were angry, you could speak of a summit meeting of the putschists that takes place today in Bald Waldsee. Officially, it is the Landtag of the Junge Union Baden-Württemberg, but because it is not only the JU federal chairman Tilman Kuban who will appear there, but also Friedrich Merz, the meeting has a special character.
The one, Kuban, wants to solve the unresolved leadership question of the party at the Leipzig party congress next week with a membership decision on the next chancellor candidate. The other, Friedrich Merz, is credited with almost everything since his energetic statements about Chancellor Angela Merkel. The "inactivity and the lack of leadership" Angela Merkel, have been for years "like a fog carpet" over the country, these were his words.
"Anyone who thinks that Leipzig will be in for a big showdown is mistaken," said yesterday a soothing Merz 'Twitter account, after he had previously announced that he wanted to give a lengthy speech at the congress. However, the reigning CDU leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer should not be completely relaxed after this tweet. Because the author was not Merz himself, but according to abbreviation in the end, "(tm)", that is the team Merz. Should Merz think differently until next Friday, his team was just badly informed.
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Is Robert Habeck cracking the 100 percent mark?
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Baerbock, habbit
At the party conference of the Greens in Bielefeld, the leading duo Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck today stand for re-election. After Habeck was already celebrated yesterday for his opening speech with standing ovations, the most exciting question today is: Does Habeck crack the 100 percent mark?
Martin Schulz, who received 100 percent of the SPD presidential election two and a half years ago and soon cursed the result, later told me that had he guessed that it would be 100 percent, he would have asked some friends to vote against him. Maybe that's also a tip for the Greens.
Unlike Baerbock, Habeck seems to be increasingly burdened by the hype surrounding his person. My colleague Julia Amalia Heyer has watched him for a portrait over several months. She not only saw the shooting star, who supposedly succeeds in everything, but also an insecure, anxious Habeck, who is offended by attacks.
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"The fear of the hype, that's how it works, is Habecks Urangst," writes Heyer. That's why he constantly strives for understatement. "Can I even say that?" He asks often. "May I go razoring, or should I shut up?"
That Habeck is now officially on the Chancellor radar, has done something with him. The question was, Heyer says, how long he could still claim to be less than other politicians. To speak differently and to think differently. To this day, Habeck is the only top politician in Germany, who says completely ironic-free phrases like this: "Sometimes you want to cuddle with the pages, so beautiful is a book."
"It will soon no longer be about how Habeck speaks," writes Heyer. "But what he has to say."
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Increasing male club song
At the beginning of the week it was bad for the men's clubs in Germany. Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, longtime member of the SPD-Spitzen men's association, had surprisingly declared that he would renounce the status of charitable status to pure male associations, which would give them tax advantages. Scholz did not think of the head of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, but of purely male rifle clubs or carnival societies, perhaps also men's clubs or his offspring variant, the boys' choir.
Towards the end of the week, however, after almost every man made a statement, the topic has lost momentum. By the way, representatives of numerous men's associations in the Ruhr area, the Herzchenkammer of social democracy, responded with particular foxy touch.
By 30 November at the latest, the men's club members should have reason to shoot down the bird quite relaxed again. Then ends the felt twelve-year search of the SPD for new party chairman. From then on there is no pressure for the candidate Scholz to make himself popular with comrades. He had cleverly hidden his feminist streak all those decades earlier.
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Winners of the day ...
... is Izzet Cagac, owner of that doner shop in Halle , where a right-wing assassin shooted a man in early October. The heavily armed man had previously attempted to massacre in a synagogue and only failed at a locked door. He then shot a passing woman on the street and killed a young man in Cagac's snack bar.
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Izzet Cagac, operator of the Kiez-Döner, is in front of his snack.
After a 40-day mourning period, as is usual in Islam, this is reopened today. With a big party. Cagac invites you to a meal together, to which the Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt, Reiner Haseloff, is expected. He wants to set a signal, says Cagac: against racism, for more love and tolerance. "I wish people to find a way with love."
Cagac wants to give his shop to his employees, who were in the store during the attack. Whether to accept the gift after the traumatic event will soon be decided. Alternatively, Cagac thinks about turning the rooms into a memorial place.
In an increasingly threatened and hate-dominated society, these gestures of solidarity and humanity are a small ray of hope.
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