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Head of the Chancellery, Helge Braun
Photo: POOL / REUTERS
According to rumors, the Chancellery Minister was said to have sat on Anne Will's talk show on Sunday evening.
So it was in the announcement, so it was reported afterwards.
But whoever watched the program saw only a sad-looking man sitting on the chair of the Chancellery Minister, who had to be instructed by a formerly important FDP politician, a professor of medical ethics and a rapper what to do against the pandemic .
Helge Braun didn't even begin to look as if he had the situation or even the Chancellery under control.
He looked like an exhausted, sometimes overwhelmed man who urgently needs a break.
Or at least a few hours in the ice barrel.
The political management of the pandemic is in what is arguably its most critical phase since it began.
When the Prime Ministers meet with the Chancellor this Wednesday, the pressure will be even higher than usual. People are longing for easing, and at the same time a possible third wave is on the horizon.
And with the back and forth of the past weeks and months, the failure of the vaccine, the inadequate test strategy, the federal and state governments have finally squandered the trust they had gained during the first wave last year.
The loss of trust has several faces.
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