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After repeated criticism of Olaf Scholz, the traffic light coalition wants to take measures to improve the Chancellor's ability to react politically.
Critics accuse Scholz of being speechless in the Cum-ex affair and Russia policy.
Criticism recently flared up at a joint press conference with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, at which he accused the State of Israel of multiple holocausts against the Palestinians.
Scholz remained silent as if he hadn't even heard the scandalous statement.
Concerned top politicians from the SPD, Greens and FDP now want to make the chancellor more responsive with special training.
"We try to lure him out of his reserve with provocative theses," says one of the somewhat embarrassing officials under the guise of anonymity: "The more often we say something to which he has to react, the sooner his ability to communicate may return." Most public advances by coalition politicians can only be understood against this background.
So far, the efforts have not been fruitful, which is why the coalition partners are now concerned with a new concern: the Chancellor is possibly still on summer vacation and is being represented by a speaking puppet with limited skills.
Now the "Scholzomat" (coalition mockery) should first prove that he is a human being.
Twelve panels were sent to the Chancellery, from which Scholz is supposed to identify those depicting a fire engine.
A reaction is awaited.
