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Habeck creates what Scholz fails - The Green is the new shadow chancellor

2022-05-16T10:38:07.605Z


Habeck creates what Scholz fails - The Green is the new shadow chancellor Created: 05/16/2022, 12:23 p.m By: Georg Anastasiadis The NRW election makes Robert Habeck the shadow chancellor, comments Georg Anastasiadis. © Imago/Panama Pictures/Sleep/fn The CDU success in the North Rhine-Westphalia election is a setback for Olaf Scholz: The triumph of the Greens makes Robert Habeck a strong man in


Habeck creates what Scholz fails - The Green is the new shadow chancellor

Created: 05/16/2022, 12:23 p.m

By: Georg Anastasiadis

The NRW election makes Robert Habeck the shadow chancellor, comments Georg Anastasiadis.

© Imago/Panama Pictures/Sleep/fn

The CDU success in the North Rhine-Westphalia election is a setback for Olaf Scholz: The triumph of the Greens makes Robert Habeck a strong man in the traffic light coalition, comments Georg Anastasiadis.

The shadow of Putin's attack on Ukraine hung so leaden over the election campaign that the North Rhine-Westphalia state elections can certainly be described as war elections - with a clear result: forces with the Left Party and AfD were punished, which the voters suspected of secret cronyism with the criminal in the standing in the Kremlin.

Equally unsuccessful was SPD Chancellor Scholz's attempt to fish for the voices of the fearful by talking about a possible nuclear war.

NRW election: Habeck creates what the Chancellor fails to do

This is a strong sign of the democratic maturity of the voters: in times of war and peace and also personal insecurity, they reward compass and firmness.

It is no coincidence that the Greens on the Rhine and Ruhr were the reward for the party that opposed the Kremlin's breach of civilization like no other in the traffic lights.

This catapults the Green Economics Minister Robert Habeck into the role of Berlin's shadow chancellor: he succeeds where the chancellor fails - to explain his policies to the citizens, to take them on a journey whose goal is far away and which will still demand many sacrifices from the people.

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The foreseeable black-green coalition in Düsseldorf puts him in a strategically strong position vis-à-vis both old mainstream parties.

The SPD will rightly blame the chancellor for the crash to the historically worst result in its heartland;

because at the same time the anger at Scholz and the traffic lights is growing in the severely beaten FDP, their crisis is programmed.

Opposition leader Friedrich Merz is fine.

His long-time rival Angela Merkel is almost forgotten in the CDU.

Although this also applies to Armin Laschet, he did at least one last service to his party when he gave his successor Hendrik Wüst a short official bonus in the Düsseldorf State Chancellery.

Some in the Union are now wondering what would have happened if Merkel had done the same thing in 2018 and given up the chancellorship with the party chairmanship in order to save her CDU power.

George Anastasiadis

Source: merkur

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