SPD on the vaccine: Sometimes the Social Democrats eat themselves up

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Since then against the crisis: This is how the CDU Chancellor and the SPD Finance Minister stood when they promised the Germans in 2008 that their savings were safe.

At that time, the grand coalition crisis management worked - for the country, for the CDU and for Angela Merkel.

Only not for the SPD.

She got a miserable result in the subsequent general election.

Since then, the horror story of the chancellor, who eats up the social democrats, has been going around the comrades: Merkel has absorbed all the successes of large coalitions, even if they were pure SPD programs like the minimum wage.

Mistakes, on the other hand, go home with the Social Democrats, even if they were made by the Union.

Which brings us to the current crisis and the list of questions about vaccine procurement that Olaf Scholz presented to his cabinet colleague Jens Spahn on behalf of the SPD states.

Why did the EU order so few vaccine doses?

Why was the EU Commission not prompted to order more at an early stage?

Why are the agreed volumes of the bilateral negotiations with Biontec and Moderna not higher?

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The Scholz catalog is an indictment, and the question marks at the end of sentences cannot hide that - and they shouldn't.

Because the four pages are the preventive discharge on your own behalf.

As understandable as the desire of the SPD not to be held liable for decisions in the Federal Ministry of Health and the Chancellery, its attempt at disengagement is crude.

When Germany was still considered a model student in the fight against corona, the SPD - including the former anti-Groko leaders Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans - could not emphasize enough how well things were going with the Union in the government.

It was a bit like Parship: every eleven minutes a Social Democrat falls in love with the grand coalition.

Now that more and more errors are becoming apparent, especially in the vaccination strategy, the SPD no longer wants to have anything to do with crisis management.

That raises questions - not to Jens Spahn, but to Olaf Scholz.

Do he and his party play such a subordinate role in the grand coalition that they were not involved in the vaccine strategy?

Didn't he know anything as Vice Chancellor?

Sometimes it's the Social Democrats themselves who eat themselves up.

This is the other scary story.