Federal Finance Minister Olf Scholz wants to become Chancellor this autumn and has just presented his brand new party program: “Future, respect, Europe” is his slogan.
But when he repeats this somewhat bumpy rhetorical triad every day, he must notice that there is a lack of “respect”, first and foremost, in his own party.
The dispute between Wolfgang Thierse and Saskia Esken has developed into a chamber play whose climax does not seem to have been reached yet.
Wolfgang Thierse stands for the tradition of the SPD, the present is embodied by party leader Saskia Esken and the future belongs to Kevin Kühnert.