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Expert judges Scholz's first Chancellor survey: "The style has to change"

2022-01-13T09:34:24.847Z


Expert judges Scholz's first Chancellor survey: "The style has to change" Created: 01/13/2022, 10:26 AM From: Marcus Mäckler When the Scholzomat encounters mild questions: In the Bundestag, Olaf Scholz faces a chancellor survey for the first time. Mostly a walk for the SPD man. Munich / Berlin - Olaf Scholz can be persistent, especially when he refuses to give clear answers. At the beginning o


Expert judges Scholz's first Chancellor survey: "The style has to change"

Created: 01/13/2022, 10:26 AM

From: Marcus Mäckler

When the Scholzomat encounters mild questions: In the Bundestag, Olaf Scholz faces a chancellor survey for the first time.

Mostly a walk for the SPD man.

Munich / Berlin - Olaf Scholz can be persistent, especially when he refuses to give clear answers.

At the beginning of December, when the coalition agreement had just been signed, he was asked, for example, in which ministries the departments for digital policy would be located.

Harmless actually, a question without any malicious ulterior motives.

But the SPD man replied: "I believe that one can say that everything will be in good order."

Aha.

I'm sorry, what?

It was a typical Scholz answer, the kind that you won't be any smarter about afterwards than before.

The Chancellor has perfected the art of circumnavigating and eloquent saying nothing.

So he got through an entire election campaign successfully.

But what if it is about concrete politics?

Can a head of government survive a chancellor survey without harm in this way?

Olaf Scholz: First Chancellor survey in the Bundestag becomes a walk

Wednesday noon (January 12): It is the first time that Scholz has to face the questions of the Bundestag in his new role. When the format was introduced in 2018, strictly speaking, it was still a survey of women chancellors. But there is not much more between then and now. No matter how hard the opposition tried, Angela Merkel refused to be “grilled”, and neither did her successor. The one-hour performance is a walk for Scholz over long distances.

This is partly due to the questions posed by parliamentarians, who are always deliberately banal when they come from within their own coalition.

A member of the Green Party wants to know, for example, how important renewable energies are for Scholz.

She could also have read in the coalition agreement or listened to her party friend, Climate Minister Robert Habeck, during his appearance the day before.

Scholz gladly accepts the pleasant question.

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Sure enough, that's government tactic.

Even the opposition does not shine with sophisticated questions, but is at least trying to lure the Chancellor from his reserve.

When it comes to compulsory vaccination, the CDU has repeatedly followed suit, accusing Scholz of lack of leadership.

He parries coolly.

When the CDU member Sepp Müller wanted to know how Scholz wanted to implement his vaccination announcement (one million per day), he said: "We have to intensify our efforts again."

Sentences like this once earned the Chancellor the nickname "Scholzomat".

Even as SPD general secretary under Gerhard Schröder, he presented positions unmoved to robotic.

That has changed little to this day.

He always says politely, but revealingly: “Thank you for your question”, only to evade or to give an answer that doesn't really fit the question.

Can this go well for four years?

"The response style has to change because it will be demanded at some point," says political scientist Ursula Münch.

Concrete answers could not be thrown off in the long run.

Münch noticed positive changes in Scholz's appearance on Wednesday (January 12), away from the Scholzomat.

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In fact, here and there it becomes more specific than expected, for example when it comes to compulsory vaccination.

In his opinion, this should apply to all adults and be as unbureaucratic as possible.

The Bundestag must pass a corresponding law "quickly".

Scholz calls nuclear power, which has just been ennobled as green by the EU Commission, "not sustainable and also not economically viable".

Scholz makes the clearest point towards the AfD.

Already at the beginning of the survey, their MPs provoke because they hold up posters saying “Freedom instead of division” - even though such political actions are forbidden in the plenary.

When the Bavarian Martin Sichert suggested that the government was keeping vaccination complications a secret, Scholz replied: “Thank you very much for your question, but not for the intention behind it.

You are confusing the citizens of this country.

The only good thing is that you won't succeed with it. "

On Thursday, however, there will be further rhetorical tests for Scholz's minister - including Robert Habeck and Karl Lauterbach.

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Source: merkur

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