A traffic light coalition should stand for departure.
But there is currently a lack of staffing.
The demand for a President of the Bundestag is loud.
Berlin - A personnel debate puts Olaf Scholz in an early stage - and that with the sensitive issue of equality between men and women. Although the SPD candidate for chancellor has described himself as a feminist in the past, there is still a lack of implementation in practice. Because according to the current status, the highest German state offices could soon all be occupied by SPD men. In a scenario that is not too unrealistic, Frank-Walter Steinmeier would continue to be Federal President, Olaf Scholz Chancellor - and the previous SPD parliamentary group leader Rolf Mützenich would be the new President of the Bundestag.
On the other hand, resistance is growing within the SPD.
That puts Scholz in a bind.
Because all-male top posts and a signal of departure from a coalition of traffic lights do not go well together.
The Working Group of Social Democratic Women (ARSP) does not want to abandon the recently suggested plans.
She demands that there be a President of the Bundestag in the new legislative period.
The position is "mandatory to be filled with a woman", said ARSP chairwoman Maria Noichl the newspapers of the
editorial network Germany
.
Real parity is also evident in the top positions.
SPD Zoff for Scholz: Resistance to Mützenich as President of the Bundestag
"The SPD's future program calls for the decade of equality," said Noichl.
"These words demand action." In the SPD parliamentary group there are "competent and great women," she said.
“Some of them also have the profile for a President of the Bundestag.
We do not accept the well-known excuse that no woman would be found. "
The office of President of the Bundestag is traditionally occupied by the largest parliamentary group;
in the previous legislature it was the CDU / CSU, after the federal election this is the SPD.
At the weekend, SPD boss Norbert Walter-Borjans
told
Bild am Sonntag
that there were “a number of suitable women and men in the SPD parliamentary group, starting with our parliamentary group leader Rolf Mützenich”.
President of the Bundestag: Personnel debate in the SPD - "as if out of time"
As the
Spiegel
reported on Monday, the sociologist Jutta Allmendinger and the former chairman of the German Ethics Council, Peter Dabrock, are campaigning for a President of the Bundestag.
"We share the high esteem for Rolf Mützenich," says the magazine in a letter from the two to the SPD MPs.
"However, his vocation for the credibility of the party, which won the election with the keywords 'respect' and 'participation', would not be a signal of new beginnings and progress."
If it comes to the traffic light coalition, "with the Federal President, Bundestag President, Federal Chancellor, Federal Council President and President of the Federal Constitutional Court, all five offices at the top of the state would be occupied by men," criticized Allmendinger and Dabrock, according to the report.
This would seem "like out of time".
(AFP / aka)
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