German Chancellor Olaf Scholz must follow remotely from Rio where the G20 summit is being held the debates which are gaining momentum in his country and within his party on a new candidacy. Its unpopularity and the poor polls of the SPD worry the party where an alternative is discussed with the popular Minister of Defense, Boris Pistorius. Finally, Olaf Scholz will return directly from Rio to Berlin and has preferred to cancel his visit to Mexico.
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With our correspondent in Berlin, Pascal Thibaut
“ In politics, we should never exclude anything. The only thing I can definitively rule out is a career as pope. », the popular Minister of Defense, Boris Pistorius, certainly added on the evening of Monday November 18 that he did not have the ambition to become caliph in place of the caliph. Namely leading the SPD campaign in the coming weeks.
However, the pressure is mounting against the title holder, Olaf Scholz. This morning, a poll of the twenty most popular politicians inGermany is cruel: Boris Pistorius leads the race; Olaf Scholz closes the ban in twentieth place.
Grumbling at the party base
Two-thirds of SPD supporters say in a poll that the defense minister would be the best candidate for chancellor. The party base is grumbling. Regional SPD leaders distanced themselves from Scholz. Now, members of the Bundestag are coming out of the woodwork.
Their parliamentary group threatens to be decimated with 16% in the polls. With Boris Pistorius, the SPD can hope to obtain a better score and greater balance in the event of a coalition under the leadership of the Christian Democrat, Friedrich Merz. The SPD leadership would like to stifle the debate but cannot succeed. The Biden-Harris syndrome is winning over Germany.
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