Juso boss Kühnert with radical U-turn in the matter of Scholz - Markus Lanz completely surprised: "What happened there?"

For years, Kevin Kühnert and Olaf Scholz were mostly separate on the matter. Now the Juso chairman explains why he supports the SPD candidate for chancellor.

• For the 2021 federal election , Olaf Scholz will run as the SPD's candidate for chancellor .
• The Federal Finance Minister is quite controversial in his own party .
• Also Juso boss Kevin Kühnert counts the Scholz critics - but now shake.

Hamburg - The SPD * made a decision a few weeks ago. Olaf Scholz is supposed to lead the Social Democrats , who have been starving to well below 20 percentage points in surveys for months, back to their old strength.

The Federal Minister of Finance is going into the 2021 federal election as the SPD's candidate for Chancellor . There he also receives support from one of his harshest critics. "Next year we’re going to play on penalties and we’re playing in the same team,” said Kevin Kühnert , who said he would support Scholz's candidacy.

Now it's out: At the suggestion of our chairmen @EskenSaskia and @NowaboFM, the presidium and board of the @spdde have just unanimously nominated me as a candidate for chancellor. I am looking forward to a great, fair and successful election campaign in a strong team. #KK_SPD pic.twitter.com/3OFQepqQxj

In the past, the head of the Jusos had mostly taken different positions than the Vice Chancellor, who belongs to the conservative wing of the SPD. And this is what Kühnert, the self-proclaimed “left social democrat”, kept his party colleagues aware of in public.

Juso boss Kevin Kühnert sees change in SPD chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz: "Corona has happened"

But now Kühnert is turning around. Also ZDF host Markus Lanz showed in his talk show surprised by the new sounds that now struck the former Scholz 'chief critics "Kühnert. "If there is someone who is really the anti-Scholz who, like no one else, stands for having fought against this grand coalition, then it is you," said Lanz and wanted to know from the young politician: "What happened there?" "

Kühnert's answer was short and sweet: " Corona * happened." The TV man asked. "Corona healed Olaf Scholz or what happened there?" Lanz asked flippantly. The Juso boss replied that he had noticed a change in his comrade Scholz. "My image of man and that of the SPD is shaped by the fact that people can also change." Kühnert continued: "The difference is, from my perspective as a left-wing social democrat, the movement is now clearly going in the right direction in several areas."

Video: Juso boss Kühnert supports Scholz

For example, the Social Democrats said goodbye to the “black zero mantra” at the 2019 party congress. Saving at any price, as Scholz from Kühnerts long lived, is also a thing of the past because of the Corona crisis. "We suspended the debt brake this year, they were sacred cows back then," said Kühnert, welcoming the Federal Finance Minister's new approach. (kh) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editorial network