The former finance minister and SPD candidate for chancellor Peer Steinbrück was a guest of Markus Lanz. He has clear doubts about the leadership competence of the SPD leadership.
- Peer Steinbrück has spoken to Markus Lanz about the SPD and its chairman Saskia Esken .
- The SPD has "five alarmist messages" that it has to deal with.
- Lanz jokes about the reaction of the audience.
Mainz - The most prominent guest in Markus Lanz 's last broadcast: Peer Steinbrück (SPD). The former finance minister and SPD vice has little good words for the situation of his party. He has great doubts, especially about the current management duo Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans .
Markus Lanz (ZDF): Peer Steinbrück comments on Sigmar Gabriel
But first, Markus Lanz is not about the two SPD chairs, but about Sigmar Gabriel's new position as a member of the supervisory board at Deutsche Bank. When asked what Steinbrück's current contact with Sigmar Gabriel was like, he replied former finance ministers: "I will see him in a few days." He thinks it is "completely okay" that Gabriel is now becoming a member of the Deutsche Bank supervisory board.
A man like Gabriel could not be banned from working and he would not become "bribed" by his new position. He personally did not go to the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank , because they were dealing with “a series of mistakes and actions” with which he would have been reluctant to face.
Markus Lanz (ZDF): SPD is dealing with "five alarmist messages"
With the transition to the SPD, criticism of the party begins. Steinbrück speaks of "five alarmist messages" with which the Social Democrats are dealing. The first is that only eight percent of the population still think the SPD is future-oriented and future-oriented. "That is a dramatically bad number." Second, the SPD has lost its image as a party for young entrepreneurs.
Yesterday @peersteinbrueck confirmed at #Lanz what I consider with heartache. Where is the statesman / woman #SPD when Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt and Herbert Wehner still led this party? Why is she no longer a pragmatic force?
- Burak Araz (@ BurakAraz24) January 31, 2020The third message also relates to numbers - the SPD had received a maximum of seven to eight percent in the last elections among the under-35s. The fourth point deals with security.
Peer Steinbrück in conversation with Markus Lanz.
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"The majority of the population does not see the issues of internal security and the enforcement of the rule of law in the foreground with the SPD." The fifth and last message: It gives the impression that the SPD advocates those in need, but those who generate the gross national product not in view. At these points, the new tip must pick up. Steinbrück doesn't see that.
Markus Lanz (ZDF): "The reaction of the audience is somehow disturbing"
Markus Lanz is "flabbergasted" how Steinbrück can remember the numbers in his head. "That keeps me awake at night," replies Steinbrück. He would sleep badly because of the SPD, he replies. "Then you haven't slept for a very long time," Lanz replies.
Shortly thereafter, the moderator investigates: What Peer Steinbrück thinks of the new double leadership, he wants to know: "With what you said here today, you have mobilized more people than Saskia Esken with her last appearance here", Lanz complains. "As Saskia Esken, yes," Steinbrück confirms.
The audience laughs and applauds. "I don't know what irritates me more, the sentence or the reaction of the audience. Both are somehow disturbing, ”says Lanz. Steinbrück declares doubts as to whether Esken and Walter-Borjans have the news he has formulated on the agenda and could form a strategy from it.
No future competence was discernible for the two chairmen. The “time talk in the SPD” does not match that of the population. The question arises, "how is our everyday culture?" The SPD leadership would be silent.
Markus Lanz (ZDF): Peer Steinbrück has clear demands on top SPD candidates
In conclusion, Steinbrück connotes that society needs "a well-positioned center-left party". But as long as the top candidates do not look at the electorate, the SPD can no longer get "beyond a potential of 20 percent".
Other guests on the show were the author Jaqueline Flory, as well as the musicians Joey Kelly and Luke Kelly.
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