It was her second appearance in Bavaria on Ash Wednesday and she probably didn't have much fewer listeners in the well-filled PUC than before in Vilshofen:
Puchheim - The new SPD chairwoman Saskia Esken did not want to miss a good 200 guests on her side trip to Puchheim. And the audience did not particularly save with applause when they warned of right-wing arsonists on current occasions. "Struggle was yesterday, we are right in the middle," she called into the hall.
The election of the prime minister in Thuringia with the votes of the AfD was for the party left a card game with knowledge of the federal level. The CDU has not only a management problem, but an orientation problem. Nevertheless, as a coalition partner, one could have no interest in an unstable union. "The CDU is not the enemy. The enemy is the AfD, the enemy is on the right. ”This party is“ with no fiber bourgeois ”, but the political arm of right-wing terror in Germany.
However, as far as the leadership question in the largest governing party is concerned, Esken, who opposed the GroKo, is certain that the SPD will no longer choose another chancellor in this legislature: "We have concluded with Angela Merkel. Other candidates are out of the question for us. ”At the moment, she doesn't know whether the government alliance has a future at all. The decisive factor will be whether further discussions on three key areas (labor market and minimum wage, investment program especially for local authorities and climate protection) will find common answers.
The economic policy
After her speech, there was a little chat in three red armchairs with district candidate Christoph Maier and mayor Norbert Seidl. Seidl wanted to know whether one could or still had to talk to supporters of the right, "We won't reach everyone," said his party leader. Every third German has misanthropic views and is against Jews or migrants or gays or all together. Maier sees "one of these right detonators is still sitting in the district office", but in campaign talks he has had the experience that people can at least be made to feel that their fears are being taken seriously.
The audience also addressed economic policy, among other things. Puchheim's former mayor Herbert Kränzlein praised the Hamburg SPD as a party for the common people, who still maintain a good relationship with the economy, and Bavarian mayors, who would have built trust in companies. But the federal SPD? Left-wing economic policy can also be both competent and create added value for everyone, including companies, Esken replied. The red-green environmental legislation under the last SPD chancellor was initially demonized and then turned out to be a huge economic development program.
Also addressed by a listener: the supposedly "Bläh Bundestag" with too many MPs. She would like to invite everyone to Berlin to convince themselves of the 70-hour week of the parliamentarians. But to be able to cover all topics competently, enough people are needed. The 48-year-old newcomer, of course, had no answer to everything. Wealth accumulation in old age, which one questioner wanted to know more about? "I am not deep in everything," said Esken, who was best known as a network and digital politician before her election. But she likes to learn and then write to the comrade. (Op)
Also interesting: the topic page on local elections
