The relationship between the SPD leader and Wolfgang Thierse has long been considered broken.
After the election of Norbert Walter-Borjans and Saskia Esken, the former President of the Bundestag let himself be carried away in 2019 to speak of “upheavals in the SPD” and a “total crash”.
The "Tagesspiegel" quoted him at the time with the words: "A party that does not learn to praise its own government achievements, but is characterized by a climate of dissatisfaction, suspicion and hatred, will have no future."
No future?
Suspicions, hatred?
Now what he might have meant comes to light.